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[jdow]

From: <linuxmaillists at charter.net>

> On Monday 05 February 2007 17:37, jdow wrote:
>> From: <linuxmaillists at charter.net>
>>
>> > On Thursday 19 February 1998 06:49, Robert Stevens 
> 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
>> >
>> > Maybe the seller is the true owner and expects you to
>> > install your own OS.
>> >
>> > Do like the others said and install a new OS.
>>
>> Maybe the machine is stolen and the true owner's identity
>> could be determined from the machine. It sounds fishy
>> that the previous "owner" could not help with the
>> password.
>>
>> {^_^}
> 
> That is true or the owner really did sell the box and does 
> not want the information accessed.  The seller should have 
> wiped the harddrive.

Either way I'd investigate the disk and inform the user if I could
find who owned it.

{^_^}