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[Mike McCarty]

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
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