And once in you can issue passwd username 

you will then be prompted for the password and you will need to enter it 
twice.  

I've never changed a user password while in single user mode so I hope this 
works.  My system is setup where I have to be sudo or root to change a 
password.  Unless of course it is my password I'm trying to change.

You can find your users by listing then with the cat command.  They are in the 
/etc/passwd file.

So do this : cat /etc/passwd



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Keith Smith

--- On Thu, 12/9/10, keith smith <klsmith2...@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: keith smith <klsmith2...@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Don't remember password.
To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Date: Thursday, December 9, 2010, 8:47 PM



I think there might be an easier way and I'm no pro.  Found this online.  Hope 
it helps

http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/grub-boot-into-single-user-mode/

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Keith Smith

--- On Thu, 12/9/10, Michael Havens <bmi...@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Michael Havens <bmi...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Don't remember password.
To: "Main PLUG discussion list" <plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
Date: Thursday, December 9, 2010, 7:37 PM

my os is ubuntuu 9.10

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Michael Havens <bmi...@gmail.com> wrote:

it is linux and I've been stuck with windows for so long now that I do not 
remember how to do this. Could someone help me out?

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 7:03 PM, JD Austin <j...@twingeckos.com> wrote:


Assuming it is linux you can usually boot into single user mode and then change 
the password.


On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 18:14, Michael Havens <bmi...@gmail.com> wrote:

I don't remember the password to mycomputer. Could the gentleman that gave it 
to me email me (bmi...@gmail.com) and tell me what it was? If nobody remembers 
it could someone tell me how to get it?





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