Re: password

["jdow" <jdow@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: <linuxmaillists@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> On Monday 05 February 2007 17:37, jdow wrote:
> > From: <linuxmaillists@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > > 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.

{^_^}