Recover a Lost Linux Password
http://www.hackszine.com/blog/archiv...untu_pass.html
Recover a Lost Linux Password
http://www.hackszine.com/blog/archiv...untu_pass.html
Last edited by aysiu; September 8th, 2008 at 04:41 PM. Reason: Changed link to be direct instead of being to a blog that links to the link
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I've retitled this thread. It's not actually about recovering a password. It's about resetting a password.
And there has long been other (and, frankly, better) documentation on this:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LostPassword
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/resetpassword
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