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can not log in

Asked by gary a.karsikas sr.

i had my dell dimention 8300 unpluged for about 2 months when i restarted it my password would not work ...how do i fix this?

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Jeet (gour-jitendrasingh) said : 		#1

http://askubuntu.com/questions/24006/how-do-i-reset-a-lost-administrative-password

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~Jeet

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#2

Boot to root recovery mode and run:

mount -o remount,rw /
passwd foo
reboot

replace foo with your username.

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