gUFW (oops)

[snison]

I was doing something I shouldn't, playing with root (a no, no), and now I have broken gUFW, among other things.
I used

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sudo passwd root

and when I found it broke some things (including nm-applet and services)

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sudo passwd -l root

and have rebooted, twice. No change.

I'm not panicking so whenever you get time. TIA

[xenopeek]

Applications that need root permissions to run, like gufw, ask you to authenticate yourself. You do that with your password. Not root's The root password is for logging in as root, like for the recovery mode console.

[snison]

whenever I click the lock that is what shows....
doesn't give me the option

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su-to-root -X -c gufw

is working, at least