I think the link you sent will help.... it teaches how to eraase all passwords (I think) I'll give the guy who installed the OS a day to see if he remembers the password he he3 set. I hope he does because I don't have a knoppix disk. I do havee a PHLAK disk and I think that will work as well. If not maybe that PLUGer on Mingus mountain can help me out.

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 8:54 PM, keith smith <klsmith2020@yahoo.com> wrote:

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@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: keith smith <klsmith2020@yahoo.com>

Subject: Re: Don't remember password.
To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss@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@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Don't remember password.
To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss@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@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@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@gmail.com> wrote:
I don't remember the password to mycomputer. Could the gentleman that gave it to me email me (bmike1@gmail.com) and tell me what it was? If nobody remembers it could someone tell me how to get it?

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