I just bought a sylvania netbook.
SOmeone apparntly bought it and put their name in as user. I don't have the password. and therefore can't get into the puter. It has linux ubunto. How do i remove her and put my mname in? Thanks
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Why don't you ask at the person that sold you the laptop?
However, you need the root password. There are several threads to recover the root password. |
You could also reinstall ubuntu and set up everything the way you want it.
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Ok. TO do that i just need an external cd drive?
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Probably no reason to reinstall, just boot
into "recovery mode" . You will come to a menu : > > Please choose 'Drop to root shell prompt' ........ type passwd <Enter> When the 'root password' is set, then : type adduser <user name> <Enter> ( user name is the name for your new 'user account' which is required to login to a 'Desktop' as a 'non root user' ) You will be asked for another password, so you will have two to remember ! Next you can either restart with <Ctrl-Alt-Delete> or do the command : su - <username> and next : startx to go to your Desktop. .... |
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