demo username and password

[Brian McKee]

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 4:14 PM, Michael Haney <thezorch at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 4:00 PM, Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 10:19 -0800, masih nilesh wrote:
>>> I downloaded Ubuntu from the Univ of MD mirror site and wanted to demo
>>> it off the CD.  I am being prompted for a username/pwd and I have not
>>> been able to find credentials that work.  The usual ones do not work
>>> and it always brings me to the login screen and not straight to the
>>> desktop.  Little help...
>>
>> You should not be prompted, but this repeatedly came up on the list over
>> the last year or so. IIRC nobody ever found a reason, but every time I
>> read about it, it could be fixed by burning the CD as slower speed.
>> YMMV.
>>
>
> That doesn't really answer the question.  Hardly ever a straight answer here.

Actually, it does.  It was well proven but not explained why a live CD
that shouldn't prompt for a user id still does.  Burning the same
image slower 'fixed' the problem.   Screwy, but true it seems.

Brian