Complete Newb cant get in!

tororosso

Hey there, I am completely lost with logging into a laptop that is set up on ubuntu
I got an old laptop off a fella on here a few weeks ago and it is set up to run on Ubuntu; anyway, I have no experience of Linux and the laptop runs to a Ubuntu login screen requiring username and password. Does anybody know a way of getting the main screen to load up if you don't know these???!!

I can get into the system recovery screen set up and I have changed the Root password that way but when you use this on the login screen it says:
"System Administrator does not have permission"!!!

I plan on changing it to Windows anyway but any help would be much appreciated

Sherifu

You're logging in with what username?

tororosso

Geez that was fast! Yeah I don't know the username that was previously used; thats half the problem

Sherifu

Well if you changed the root password...

Username: root
Password: *whatever you changed it to*

tororosso

Yeah I'll try it again tonight although if my memory serves me right the last time I did just that and it returned a response:
"System Administrator does not have permission"

...or something like this statement

Will let you know, Thanks

Sherifu

Are you using root or Root?

tororosso

root. should I put it in Upper case??

Sherifu

Nope. If you're using root then it should be fine.

MarkR

Found this.

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