I volunteer some time at a large and well known Linux help forum to assist people with Linux related technical issues and answering questions related to Linux. They are often newbies who are just learning the OS and need a bit of help, often with some pretty basic things, as they learn the different ways of getting things done in Linux as opposed to Windows.
One thread today was a person asking about installing a new version of Firefox. His questions were extremely basic and it was obvious he was clueless. A few of us were giving him some information about how to go about it. Now, Linux being Linux, one must know the root (administrator) password on the system in order to install any software and here's where he hit a wall.
At this point it came out that this was a school owned laptop that he was trying to install this software on, which of course he never said from the beginning or the whole thread would have been far shorter. I'm sure he knows perfectly well that he shouldn't be trying to install anything on this machine, but figured the folks on a Linux forum would show him how to crack the root password to the machine. We don't do that.
Damn sneaky kids.