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Resetting forgotten password in Ubuntu Linux

28 February, 2012

Do NOT do this if you have an encrypted partition, as you’ll lose access to all that data!! reference on forgotten password vis ecryptfs

  1. Reboot
  2. at GRUB, choose Recovery Mode, then root.
  3. reset password
mount -o remount,rw /

passwd myusername
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