On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:36 PM, tina braxton <tinabraxton@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I received a donated laptop computer several months ago and have no contact information for the gentleman who programmed it. He chose a gnome desktop for me, because it is easy to use, and mostly, I have found it so, except for one problem. He forgot to give me the root and admin passwords for it, and they are required for a number of important things I need to do. > Have you tried running a privileged command with sudo using your own password? If that doesn't work, I'd take Dennis's advice. _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
