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[Mike McCarty]

John Poelstra wrote:
> Mike McCarty said the following on 02/13/2007 12:05 PM Pacific Time:
> 
>> Robert Anderson wrote:
>>
>>> On 2/19/98, Robert Stevens <stevens8136 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>  I purchased a computer on ebay with Fedora core.  The Fedora  core 
>>>> boots
>>>> up, but asks for a user name and password and I can't go any 
>>>> further.  The
>>>> seller is not helpful.  Is there any way I can get past the user 
>>>> name and
>>>> password.  This is a gateway computer.  The computer is useless to 
>>>> me as it
>>>> is.
>>>> Bob
>>
>>
>> Sorry to reply "through you" Robert.
>>
>> One way to deal with this is to boot from a LiveCD like Knoppix
>> and chroot then change the root password to what you want, and add
>> a user for yourself. Then reboot, and log in as your new user.
>> Then you can use "su -" to change to root, and give yourself
>> sudo priviledge, and open up any files you want by chmod'ing
>> them to allow your user access.
>>
>> Mike
> 
> 
> If there is no password on the bootloader you don't need a live CD.

He says that he is already booting to Linux.

> Edit the grub entry at boot time by adding a "1" to the end of the line 
> with begins with "kernel"
> 
> This will boot Fedora into single user mode.  Type "passwd" at the 
> prompt and enter your new root password.

Good point.

Mike
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