On 10/06/2012 15:29, Tony Pursell wrote:
On 10 June 2012 15:05, scoundrel50a <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I cant remember my log in password for one my computers and tried
all sorts of different passwords, but to no avail. I even tried
following this
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/resetpassword
but get to selecting root, and that is where things are different,
on the page it allows you to enter this 'mount -0 rw, remount /'
but mne doesnt it asks for a root password, and I cant go any
further....is there a command via the terminal to change the password?
Thanks
After you have remounted the file system read/write, you are the root
user, without needing to enter a root password. If I remember
correctly, you just need the command
passwd
to change the root password, but you shouldn't need to do that if you
use the normal sudo method of assuming root privileges. All you
should need to do is change your own password with
passwd <username>
replacing <username> with your user name.
Tony
Hi, how can you mount read/write........I just looked and it mounts read
only......
thanks
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