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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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Keith Smith

--- On Thu, 12/9/10, keith smith <> wrote:

From: keith smith <>
Subject: Re: Don't remember password.
To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <>
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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Keith Smith

--- On Thu, 12/9/10, Michael Havens <> wrote:

From: Michael Havens <>
Subject: Re: Don't remember password.
To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <>
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 <> 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 <> 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 <> wrote:

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





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