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Password Reset???

I just got a netbook that has Ubuntu 8.04. The computer belonged to the deceased husband of a friend and she can't remember the password that he had set up for admin/updates/etc. Is there any way to recover the password or over-ride & replace the password?? There are 188 updates listed and I can't get any of them or even set up my own name/info for the desktop. Can anyone help me, PLEASE ???? I'm not a computer whiz, so need simple instructions :-(

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  • marc
    marc Posts: 647
    gsp4me wrote:
    I just got a netbook that has Ubuntu 8.04. The computer belonged to the deceased husband of a friend and she can't remember the password that he had set up for admin/updates/etc. Is there any way to recover the password or over-ride & replace the password?? There are 188 updates listed and I can't get any of them or even set up my own name/info for the desktop. Can anyone help me, PLEASE ???? I'm not a computer whiz, so need simple instructions :-(

    See here:

    http://www.linux.com/community/forums?func=view&catid=3&id=11209#11212

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