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So, I just bought a laptop with Ubuntu on it at a pawnshop and I can't do anything since the person sold it had not written down his password or recovery key, did I waste my money or is there a way to fix this? Please help.

Christian Southard
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    I would recommend that you install a fresh Ubuntu on it, alone for your own data security. – Videonauth Jun 30 '16 at 19:33
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    I would also strongly recommend you to do a fresh install. I would not bother with a used and possibly messed up system. Ubuntu is free and there are no license keys required, so simply download a fresh Ubuntu iso and do a clean reinstall. See http://askubuntu.com/questions/6328/how-do-i-install-ubuntu – Byte Commander Jun 30 '16 at 19:39

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Boot from Ubuntu Live CD.

Open terminal, type sudo fdisk -l

Find your Ubuntu partition (by comparing size or other numbers in file manager).

Mount it on /mnt by sudo mount /dev/sdxy where x should be letter (a, b, c, etc.) and y should be a number.

Chroot into it by sudo chroot /mnt

Run passwd and change password for root or passwd user for other users.

Ven3k
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