password problem

[raymond house]

Thanks Eugene, I will be tackling the problem tomorrow and I will let you
know the outcome. I really appreciate the help,   Ray

On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Eugene Cormier <eugene.cormier at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Ray ....disregard my last email....I just realized those instructions
> won't work unless you have the root password for the sudo
> command.....the only way you're going to be able to reset the root
> password is to chroot and fix it or to reinstall ....what follows is the
> chroot instructions:
>
> 1) boot from the ubuntu live cd, choose "try Ubuntu"
> 2) open a terminal and run the following (for the second command you
> MUST replace /dev/sda1 with the name of your root partition....might be
> sda1, sda2 sda3....whatever you choose for your root partition when you
> installed ubuntu):
>
> mkdir temp
> mount /dev/sda1 ./temp
> chroot ./temp
> sudo passwd root
>
> After you enter the new password (twice) reboot and things should work
> again
>
> Of course there is one other possibility which is, did you by chance
> remove your user from any groups recently....don't ever remove your user
> from the "wheel" group as that would stop you from being able to gain
> administration privileges from your user account (you can check this in
> System - Administration - Users and Groups)
>
> Cheers
> Eugene
>
> On 01/08/11 13:58, raymond house wrote:
> > Hi Victor, yes I log on ok, it's just when I try to use synaptic or
> > download software that it does not work.  Ray
>
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