Can't install (lost Admin-password)

[Tom Rausner]

tor, 24 11 2011 kl. 22:18 +0200, skrev Marius Gedminas:
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 03:13:17PM +0100, Tom Rausner wrote:
> > ons, 23 11 2011 kl. 23:44 +0100, skrev Nils Kassube:
> > > Tom Rausner wrote:
> > > > By accident the admin password to the authkey on
> > > > my wifes computer has been changed, and I don't
> > > > know into what.
> 
> (I don't know what "password to the authkey" means.)

The keyring you have to unlock to be able to install software.

> > > > How can I get around to change it to something
> > > > known, without knowing what it is now ?
> > > 
> > > I think, this is what you're looking for:
> > > <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LostPassword>
> > 
> > Thanks a bounch for the reply, but it doesn't work;
> > 
> > "The standard way" gives me an error when I type in a new password;
> > 
> > error manipulating the authentificationtoken 
> > (my translation from danish).
> 
> Which user account's password did you try to change?  root?

No, my wifes (think I made an error there...)

> Incidentally, if you want to see an English description, use
> 
>   LC_ALL=C passwd <username>
> 
> > "The other way" and "The other way lucid" (I tried that one too) gives 
> > this message;
> > 
> > bash: cannot set terminal group (-1): inapropriate ioctl for device
> > bash: no job control in this shell
> > root@(none):/#
> 
> Interesting, but probably should not matter.

Sure? anyways I can't get on from there...

> I'm looking at the instructions and wondering if init=/bin/bash will
> suffice in the presence of an initramfs.  You can't change any passwords
> from an initramfs shell when the real root partition is not yet mounted.
> But if you can boot into rescue mode then this is irrelevant.

I've managed to get rescue mode working. Will try it tomorrow.

> Marius Gedminas


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