Re: password

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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
<SNIP><SNIP><SNIP>
Leaving aside the speculation as to why the seller isn't helpful at getting past the password prompt, boot with either the FC6 rescue cd or the first FC6 install cd (enter "linux rescue" at the initial installation prompt). This effective logs you on as root in single user mode. After asking several questions regarding language and such you'll get a chance to mount the current installation under /mnt/sysimage. Do that. When you get a shell prompt chroot to /mnt/sysimage (check the chroot man page if you have any questions). You should then be able to explore the system with no problems and set passwords, etc.

Cheers,
Dave

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