newbie: login with no password. Help!

[wulf]

I'm not sure about whether you'll need to do a reinstall. I don't quite
understand what Gabriel is suggesting. If I were in that situation, I'd
probably try to boot the machine from a Live-CD distro, mount the
hard-drive, and see what I could do from there (-chroot- comes to mind
but I'd have to look it up to say more).

However, assuming you do get a user account sorted out you can then
configure the login manager to let that person log in automatically.
That would be the "right" way of circumventing the login security; you
need a user account to fit into the filesystem permissions structure.

Wulf


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wulf