will not accept super user password

[Jim Maas <jamaas btinternet com>]

I can't get past the request for the su password. I suppose this is 
something weird to do with this Debian sudo su system?  I've even gone 
into the directory gnome-system-monitor-2.9.91 and compiled and 
installed it as su but garnome will still not go past this step.  Any 
suggestions?

Thanks

Jim


[===== NOW BUILDING:    gnome-system-monitor-2.9.91     =====]
       [fetch] complete for gnome-system-monitor.
       [checksum] complete for gnome-system-monitor.
       [extract] complete for gnome-system-monitor.
       [patch] complete for gnome-system-monitor.
==> Gnome-system-monitor requires libgnomesu
==> You need to be root to install libgnomesu
==> Please provide the root password
Password:
su: Authentication failure
Sorry.
*** If you do not have root access then you need to
*** rm -rf gnome-system-monitor libgnomesu
make[1]: *** [pre-configure] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory 
`/home/jamaas/downloads/garnome-2.9.91.1/desktop/gnome-system-monitor'
make: *** [paranoid-install] Error 2

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