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[paulmeeks2004]

I lost my admin. login and ? need root /then how to change back to my password. anyone

[deadflowr]

Here's a nice guide:

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/resetpassword

[paulmeeks2004]

Thank you, I'll look!

[paulmeeks2004]

What is my root, unable to get into recovery mode

[newb85]

Specifically, which part of Psychocats' tutorial isn't working for you?

[paulmeeks2004]

The first step ;( it just won't go into recovery mode! Is their a root password that will give me back my computer ? that's what it feels like...

[deadflowr]

You'll need to get into grub. I believe you'll need to hold down the shift key during the start up( the period between the bios start screen and when the Ubuntu label/splash appears.) This will give you the grub menu and recovery will be there.
Of course there is always the possibility that you commented the recovery in the /etc/default/grub configuration file. which would hide the entry in grub. This is something you have to have manually done, though.

[paulmeeks2004]

You'll need to get into grub. I believe you'll need to hold down the shift key during the start up( the period between the bios start screen and when the Ubuntu label/splash appears.) This will give you the grub menu and recovery will be there.
Of course there is always the possibility that you commented the recovery in the /etc/default/grub configuration file. which would hide the entry in grub. This is something you have to have manually done, though.

I did exactly what I was told to do! It just starts up like normal ie: for a guest..

[dolphin194]

You can use your Live CD to recover your root access.

From https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LiveCdRecovery:

Lost Password

Here is how you can use the Live CD to change the administrative password on your machine if you have lost/forgot the current password. Please note that you can usually boot into RecoveryMode and run the passwd command directly.

1. Boot the Ubuntu Live CD.
2. Press Ctrl-Alt-F1
3. sudo mount /dev/hda1 /mnt
4. Depending on your machine it could also be sudo mount /dev/sda1 /mnt. If you created a custom partition layout when installing Ubuntu you have to find your root partition using the fdisk utility. See the section Finding your root partition.
5. sudo chroot /mnt

You can now use the passwd command to reset a password.
Note: In the mount command, /dev/hda1 will need to be replaced with the partition where the root of the file system resides.

[paulmeeks2004]

That's just it, I don't have any privilege's now ;(