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Lost password, Esc does not work, help!

Asked by Arikun

I lost my password, Esc does not work either, a screen comes up, but there is no rescue mode or safe mode. There are two options, none do anything, they just start regular mode. What else can I do??
I haven't used my desktop(it's the one with Ubuntu on it) in several months, none of the passwords I know I use work. Someone please help...

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arochester (arochester) said : 		#1

1) Reinstall

2) If there is anything worth saving use a LiveCD and copy it off to an external disk

3)Write down your password in several places.

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Best actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

Hold shift at boot, select recovery mode then select root.

You can now run:

cd /home; ls

and see the usernames on the system. You can now run:

passwd foo

replace 'foo' with the username you want to set the password of, you can now reboot using:

shutdown -r now

and then boot normally and login. YOU DON'T NEED TO REINSTALL!

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Arikun (secuono) said : 		#3

It shows the esc & f10 and all, but nothing happened when I held shift. Do I hold it as soon as I turn the pc on or Once the menu shows?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

As soon as the PC post beeps, hold it down. You will see onsscreen "Grub loading". Hold it then

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Arikun (secuono) said : 		#5

Thanks.

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Arikun (secuono) said : 		#6

Thanks actionparsnip, that solved my question.