The "missing" password!

[Niles Rogoff]

I believe you must enter the root password in order to boot into recovery
mode.


On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 8:54 PM, Sajan Parikh <sajan at parikh.io> wrote:

> On 03/30/2014 07:23 PM, Niles Rogoff wrote:
>
>> To attempt to recover, you might try booting from your Ubuntu live CD,
>> mounting your partition, chrooting to it's mount point and changing the
>> password with the `passwd' command.
>>
>
> If you do need to recover, it might be easier to boot into RecoveryMode
> and use the 'passwd' command.  Rather than dealing with live CDs and
> mounts.  In Recovery Mode the system is automatically mounted, you just
> need to remount it with write permissions.
>
> I've never actually done this in Ubuntu, but booting into single user mode
> is how I've recovered passwords in the past on other distributions.  Not
> sure if 'RecoveryMode' and single user mode are the same thing, but either
> way should do the trick.
>
> Here's a wiki page with what you need to do.  Shouldn't take but 5 minutes.
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RecoveryMode
>
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