reboot the machine, look for:  "Grub loading, please wait..."  when you see
this on the screen, hit "ESC".  this will take you to a menu.

you would then want to select the menu item containing the words "recovery
mode", after a few moments you will see another menu.

select "root   Drop to root shell prompt"

hopefully you hadn't already created (and forgotten) a root password.  if
you had not previously created a root password you should see a "[EMAIL 
PROTECTED]:~#"
prompt.

type, "cat /etc/passwd", you should see the username (created when you
installed gOS) towards the bottom of this file.  next, type "passwd
username", follow the prompts and you should be able to get back to normal
usage.

if you had at one point created a password for the root user, you may want
to google for "recover root password"...

good luck.



On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 9:50 PM, GrimmLin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>
> I bought a new Cloudbook, set it up with a User Name & Password then 3
> months went by and I forgot what they were. How do I resolve this?
> >
>

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