Don't remember password.

[keith smith]

And once in you can issue passwd username 

you will then be prompted for the password and you will need to enter it twice.  

I've never changed a user password while in single user mode so I hope this works.  My system is setup where I have to be sudo or root to change a password.  Unless of course it is my password I'm trying to change.

You can find your users by listing then with the cat command.  They are in the /etc/passwd file.

So do this : cat /etc/passwd



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--- On Thu, 12/9/10, keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com> wrote:

From: keith smith <klsmith2020 at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Don't remember password.
To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Date: Thursday, December 9, 2010, 8:47 PM



I think there might be an easier way and I'm no pro.  Found this online.  Hope it helps

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/grub-boot-into-single-user-mode/

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--- On Thu, 12/9/10, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Don't remember password.
To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Date: Thursday, December 9, 2010, 7:37 PM

my os is ubuntuu 9.10

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

it is linux and I've been stuck with windows for so long now that I do not remember how to do this. Could someone help me out?

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 7:03 PM, JD Austin <jd at twingeckos.com> wrote:


Assuming it is linux you can usually boot into single user mode and then change the password.


On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 18:14, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com> wrote:

I don't remember the password to mycomputer. Could the gentleman that gave it to me email me (bmike1 at gmail.com) and tell me what it was? If nobody remembers it could someone tell me how to get it?





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