On 10/06/2012 15:42, Simon Greenwood wrote:
On 10 June 2012 15:37, scoundrel50a <scoundrel...@gmail.com
<mailto:scoundrel...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On 10/06/2012 15:30, Simon Greenwood wrote:
On 10 June 2012 15:05, scoundrel50a <scoundrel...@gmail.com
<mailto:scoundrel...@gmail.com>> wrote:
I cant remember my log in password for one my computers and
tried all sorts of different passwords, but to no avail. I
even tried following this
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/resetpassword
but get to selecting root, and that is where things are
different, on the page it allows you to enter this 'mount -0
rw, remount /' but mne doesnt it asks for a root password,
and I cant go any further....is there a command via the
terminal to change the password?
That shouldn't be happening if you're booting into single user
mode. You are effectively root on the console. It suggests that
the disk is mounting read-only and needs checking.
The other option is to boot from a live CD or USB, mount the
drive in much the same way, and unset the root password by
editing /etc/shadow on the mounted disk and removing the string
in the password field.
s/
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Oh yes I forgot tot tell you I can see it says read only not read
write, so why would it do that it was clean install.....how do I
check it.......and I dont know what you mean by 'removing the
string in the password' sorry........
That's the answer then. Reboot to rescue mode and select 'fsck' to get
the disk checked, then reboot into rescue mode and root and then
follow the instructions about mounting.
s/
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Hi, well that didnt work, probably because I am not too sure about what
I was doing, so I decided to install lubuntu on it instead, its
installing now, so hopefully it should work, as I added a new password,
and saved it on another computer.....
thanks everybody for the help
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