Thanks to all who responded.
Quoting Yehuda Katz <yak...@umd.edu>:
--- Ubuntu 14.04 is EOL and should be upgraded to a supported version that gets security updates. ---
Well, I'm the only person who lives here and this laptop isn't connected to the net, so I think the security risk is minimal.
You can reboot and modify the grub config to boot into a root chell and let you change the password. 1. When the GRUB menu shows on boot, press 'e'. 2. On the line that starts "linux" add "init=/bin/bash" to the end. 3. Once you get a shell, type "mount -o remount,rw /" 4. Use the passwd command to set the password. 5. Reboot.
Once I figured out how to get a GRUB menu, this was what worked for me. For some reason I couldn't boot from a DVD, even when I went into the BIOS setup and disabled booting from everything except the DVD drive. All the methods suggested involving sudo and su required passwords.
I certainly learned a lot about Linux! So there you have it. I don't know what I'd do without y'all. Thanks again. Howard You received this email because you are subscribed to the UM Linux User's Group (UM-LINUX) mailing list. If you would like to unsubscribe from this list, simply send an email to lists...@listserv.umd.edu with the message signoff UM-LINUX in the body.
