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liam.mccaffrey

posted on 27/8/09 at 04:01 PM Reply With Quote
Forgot Ubuntu Administrator password

Any ideas how to change it??





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BenTyreman

posted on 27/8/09 at 04:59 PM Reply With Quote
If you have sudo access on your user account (should have if you are using Ubuntu), then you can open a command terminal and run

code:
sudo passwd root


You will have to type your user password once, then it will ask you to type the new root password twice.






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Peteff

posted on 27/8/09 at 07:10 PM Reply With Quote
I wrote it on the table under the keyboard, didn't you think of that ?





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liam.mccaffrey

posted on 27/8/09 at 07:33 PM Reply With Quote
sorted now by booting into command line and fireing some commands in

shockingly easy really





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jlparsons

posted on 27/8/09 at 08:31 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Peteff
I wrote it on the table under the keyboard, didn't you think of that ?


Bloody genius! I'll do that at work. I work in a bank.





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