Password Help

[Carl Friis-Hansen]

>  
> Here is a method to try:
> 
> 1.  Boot from the cd then open a terminal window, 
> 2.  Mount the root slice of your hard drive,
> 3.  Remove the password string from /etc/shadow.
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> John.
> 
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> From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of steve
> Sent: Monday, 14 April 2008 6:25 AM
> To: Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions
> Subject: Re: Password Help
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> Jeffrey Tooker wrote:
> | It will not let me in with the password and user name I gave it, or I
> messed
> | up.  If I can not get into Ubuntu I would think I need to dump it all and
> | reload.
> |
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> 
> try this.  there are other ways with a live cd, but this is fairly
> simple to do, and quick.
> 
> http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-3609.html
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> - --
> Steve Reilly
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> http://reillyblog.com
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Am I ignorant or should the shadow password string for root not be 
"root:!:..."?  If this is the case then I would rather delete the 
password string from the user the o.p. created. In that way everything 
is works correctly and he can just change his password when he is up and 
running (chpasswd) or the GUI (users and groups).
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Carl Friis-Hansen