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 ------------------------ Keith Smith --- On Thu, 12/9/10, keith smith <[email protected]> wrote: From: keith smith <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Don't remember password. To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <[email protected]> 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/ ------------------------ Keith Smith --- On Thu, 12/9/10, Michael Havens <[email protected]> wrote: From: Michael Havens <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Don't remember password. To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> wrote: I don't remember the password to mycomputer. Could the gentleman that gave it to me email me ([email protected]) and tell me what it was? If nobody remembers it could someone tell me how to get it? -- :-)~MIKE~(-: --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -- :-)~MIKE~(-: -- :-)~MIKE~(-: -----Inline Attachment Follows----- --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss -----Inline Attachment Follows----- --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
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