Another alternative to external boot (works up to Trisquel v8):

1. Hold [Shift] key when booting computer (don't wait anything appears
on screen)
2. You will be presented with a black screen titled "GNU GRUB"
3. With keyboard arrows, select "Advanced options for Trisquel
GNU/Linux" and press ENTER.
4. Select "Trisquel GNU... (recovery mode)" and press ENTER
5. After many boot messages, you will be presented with a blue screen
6. Use keyboard arrows to select "network" option and press ENTER (this
will enable write capabilities to system volume)
7. In same menu/screen select "root" option and press ENTER

Let's assume user accounts are called "wife" and "husband".

Type in this, to reset "husband" password:
passwd husband +ENTER

After this, you can type in the "reboot" command and you will be
entirely happy.


El 13/10/19 a les 22:03, [email protected] ha escrit:
> Hello to all. I came here because none of the other forums could helped me.
> I am not using Trisquel anymore, although I consider the concept
> interesting,  but not practical, anyway...I have some photos in the
> disk, that I would like  to retrieve, particularly photos of my then
> pregnant wife. It is somewhat  important to us to get those unique
> photos that we store on that trisquel  computer.
> The thing is I don't know any more, what was my password then... I have
> two  accounts on that machine, one mine, and the other of my wife. We
> (me and my  wife) could enter in my wife account, because we know the
> password of her  account, but the photos we need were stored in my
> account, because I am the  "linux" person in the house, she never cared
> much using linux and her  account.
> I've seen some other forum, but that didn't help much because of one
> simple  reason, that irritates me a lot (sorrY):
> When I click in the advance mode, the computer prompts right away to
> enter  username, and then password! That's exactly what I don't know! It
> didn't make  much sense... I am handed thigh in this situation!
> With this set of informations could anyone help me? Please.
> Thanks in advance and I will consider contribute more for real free
> software  like trisquel Linux.
> 

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