Re: need help with my gnome desktop

[Mark <mhullrich gmail com>]

On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 3:36 PM, tina braxton <tinabraxton yahoo com> wrote:
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> 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.
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Have you tried running a privileged command with sudo using your own
password?  If that doesn't work, I'd take Dennis's advice.