what to do if lost password

2015-05-27 Thread Michael Havens
I got a friend upon whose computer (old XP) I installed Linux. She called me last night because she forgot the password. Well, I asked the Florida user group about what to do and this is what they had to say: Just use GRUB to boot into single user mode / recovery mode. Append *init=/bin/sh* to

Re: what to do if lost password

2015-05-27 Thread Stephen Partington
I think i recall you working with Linux Mint, but this should be reasonably close for most *buntu/debian related builds. http://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/339 On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 12:37 PM, Michael Havens bmi...@gmail.com wrote: I haven't changed anything yet but in my trial run