Re: [Trisquel-users] Lost admin password on my libiquity taurinus x2000 with trisquel

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Setting /etc/shadow and removing the x in /etc/passwd removes the password  
entirely, so after that it should be possible to even boot normally (even  
without init=/bin/bash), log in without a password, and then you can just set  
another password.

This also works on encrypted systems, in the situation where you know how to  
decrypt the drive but you lost your password to your user account, and you  
have the ability to mount the root file system and edit those 2 files.