I assure you that what follows is legit.
One of my oldest friends died in March (of a massive stroke, not
corona virus). I inherited his three laptops, one of which is an IBM
Thinkpad running Ubuntu 14.04LTS. I can produce a copy of his will,
and, given a day or two to catch up with his executor, a copy of the
death certificate, if needed.
It automagically boots "Authorized User" with no password needed. This
is not the same as root: I opened a terminal window and typed
"adduser," which you have to be root to do, and got my wrists soundly
slapped for my efforts.
So is there a way to determine or at least re-set the root password on
this machine? I'd like to create another user (i.e., me), and set the
password for "Authorized User" to something I know.
If it helps, I'm positive he bought the machine from PC Retro in
Beltsville a few years ago. Do they use the same root password on all
their Linux boxes?
Any suggestions will be most welcome.
Thanks.
Howard Sanner
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