liam.mccaffrey
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| posted on 27/8/09 at 04:01 PM |
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Forgot Ubuntu Administrator password
Any ideas how to change it??
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BenTyreman
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| posted on 27/8/09 at 04:59 PM |
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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
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| posted on 27/8/09 at 07:10 PM |
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I wrote it on the table under the keyboard, didn't you think of that ? 
yours, Pete
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liam.mccaffrey
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| posted on 27/8/09 at 07:33 PM |
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sorted now by booting into command line and fireing some commands in
shockingly easy really
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jlparsons
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| posted on 27/8/09 at 08:31 PM |
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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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