forgot user name and password when install ubuntu 7.10

To discover your user and restore the password you can:

Start the pc the when you see the GRUB row...

Press ESC.

Press "e" for edit.

Highlight the line that begins kernel ………, and press "e"

Go to the very end of the line, add rw init=/bin/bash

press enter, then press "b" to boot your system.

Your system will boot up to a passwordless root shell.

Type in grep -i 1000 /etc/passwd

The system must show a row with your user name at the start of the row
for example:
danilo:x:1000:1000:ubuntu,,,:/home/danilo:/bin/bash

Here my user is danilo

Then to change your user password type in passwd username
change username with your real user

Set your password.

Type in reboot

Hope this helps

I just start to instal ubuntu 7.10 and somehow I forgot my username and password, now I can't do anything. Can you help me out of this? Thanks

I just start to instal ubuntu 7.10 and somehow I forgot my username and password, now I can't do anything. Can you help me out of this? Thanks