<div dir="ltr">here it is: (guess I didnt need the DVD)<div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px">You can't retrieve a forgotten or lost password, but you can set a new one ("change" the old password). It's not simple, because of security concerns. But if you follow the instructions below carefully, it shouldn't be hard to do.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><i>Note: don't use this method when you've encrypted your home directory or your entire system! Because then it will remain inaccessible. This method is only meant for the normal situation, in which nothing has been encrypted.</i></b><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px">1. First you do a one-time hack of the boot menu of Grub.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px">If you never get to see the Grub menu, you can make the Grub menu visible when you turn on your computer, </span><i style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px">by pressing the <b>Shift key</b> immediately after the BIOS screen disappears, and keeping it pressed</i><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px">. Usually it's the left Shift key, but sometimes it's the right Shift key.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px">2. Normally the boot line of Linux Mint or Ubuntu is highlighted; if not, make it so.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Press the </span><span style="font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,255)"><font size="4"><b>e</b></font></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> key to edit this boot line.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px">3. Now look for the following line in the text that you see:</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><code style="color:rgb(0,96,0);font-size:16px"><font size="3">linux /boot/vmlinuz-<i>(...much text omitted...)</i> ro quiet splash $vt_handoff</font></code><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Move the cursor to the end of that line (use the arrow keys for that) and delete:</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><code style="color:rgb(0,96,0);font-size:16px">ro quiet splash $vt_handoff</code><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Replace the deleted text by this:</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><code style="color:rgb(0,96,0);font-size:16px">rw init=/bin/bash</code><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px">The line should therefore become like this:</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><code style="color:rgb(0,96,0);font-size:16px"><font size="3">linux /boot/vmlinuz-<i>(...much text omitted...)</i> rw init=/bin/bash</font></code><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px">4. Press F10 or use the key combination 'Ctrl x'. With that, you'll boot your computer with the altered boot line.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px">5. Now wait a while: Ubuntu or Linux Mint will boot without a graphical user interface. You'll end up with a "bare" terminal with a lot of text, of which the bottom line looks like this:</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><code style="color:rgb(0,96,0);font-size:16px">root@(none) / #</code><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px">6. Now check the existing user accounts on the system. Type:</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><code style="color:rgb(0,96,0);font-size:16px">ls /home</code><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px">(the first letter is a small L)</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Press Enter. You'll see a list of the user accounts. Note that there are no capital letters in their names.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px">7. Then type:</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><code style="color:rgb(0,96,0);font-size:16px">passwd your_own_username</code><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> (for example: </span><span style="font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,255)">passwd john</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px">)</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px">press Enter.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Now you should be able to enter your new password ("Enter new UNIX password").</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><i style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><b>Note:</b></i><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> don't use spaces or accents in your new password and don't use special characters that might vary with different keyboard layouts. Keep it simple and foolproof: use only letters and figures.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><i style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><b>Note (2):</b></i><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> when you type your new password, it remains invisible. Not even asterisks will show, which is normal. In this window it's being called a Unix password: Linux's roots are becoming visible!</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px">8. Press the key combination </span><span style="font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px;color:rgb(0,0,255)">Ctrl Alt Delete</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> in order to reboot.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px">You're done! Now you can log in with your new password.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,sans-serif;font-size:16px"></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 8, 2016 at 10:31 AM, Stephen Partington <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cryptworks@gmail.com" target="_blank">cryptworks@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">Ask Google and Google provides</p>
<p dir="ltr"><a href="http://askubuntu.com/questions/24006/how-do-i-reset-a-lost-administrative-password" target="_blank">http://askubuntu.com/<wbr>questions/24006/how-do-i-<wbr>reset-a-lost-administrative-<wbr>password</a><br>
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<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Oct 8, 2016 5:13 AM, "Michael" <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">the password on my tv server is broken. I guess I forgot it. I reset it  once before but can't do it again. this is what I did:<div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"lucida grande","trebuchet ms",verdana,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(225,235,242)">boot into single user mode:</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"lucida grande","trebuchet ms",verdana,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(225,235,242)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"lucida grande","trebuchet ms",verdana,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(225,235,242)">at kernel option screen add 'single' to the end of the line that starts with 'linux'</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"lucida grande","trebuchet ms",verdana,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(225,235,242)"><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"lucida grande","trebuchet ms",verdana,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(225,235,242)"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"lucida grande","trebuchet ms",verdana,helvetica,arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(225,235,242)">then I change the password I wish to change but I can't boot into single user mode with the mint dvd</span><br><div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_-5100202099639101010m_-6895078049012419386gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">:-)~MIKE~(-:</span><br></div></div></div></div></div>
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