[ubuntu-in] How to find / reset user password in Ubuntu

[ram sri]

If you forgot you password for your ubuntu system you can recover using the following steps
Turn your computer on.
Press ESC at the grub prompt.
Press e for edit.
Highlight the line that begins kernel ………, press e
Go to the very end of the line, add rw init=/bin/bash
press enter, then press b to boot your system.
Your system will boot up to a passwordless root shell.
Type in passwd  username
Set your password.
Type in reboot

Vengadanathan

--- On Sun, 1/2/09, Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com> wrote:
From: Ramnarayan.K <ramnarayan.k at gmail.com>
Subject: [ubuntu-in] How to find / reset user password in Ubuntu
To: "Ubuntu India Local Community" <ubuntu-in at lists.ubuntu.com>
Cc: "bobby" <ramki at utk.edu>, "Murali Shanker" <mshanker at kent.edu>
Date: Sunday, 1 February, 2009, 11:41 PM

Hi

am helping some of my folks update their ubuntu's but on their
machines automatic login has been enabled consequently they have
forgotten the user password

is there some way of finding it / resetting it ??

thanks
ram

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