I skipped password on installation can't install up dates. asked for password hit enter nothing

Please set a password...

I don't remember user and password what i can do

You can do this: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/resetpassword

or

To discover your user and restore (change) 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

or

passwd -d username

change username with your real user

Set your password.

Type in:

reboot

or

reboot -f

Hope this helps

It worked like a champ.  I had spent all my free time for a week trying to figure out what to do and even if was the problem. Five min following instructions and it was done.

The only thing is how come it took almost an hour for someone to respond with the answer. :-) HP or Gateway always get back with thirty days or so if you make it clear it is an emergency.

A very sincere THANK YOU

Jim Brown

--- On Tue, 12/9/08, marcobra <email address hidden> wrote:
From: marcobra <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [Question #53998]: I skipped password on installation can't install up dates. asked for password hit enter nothing
To: <email address hidden>
Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2008, 10:44 PM

Your question #53998 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/53998

    Status: Open => Answered

marcobra proposed the following answer:
Please set a password...

I don't remember user and password what i can do

You can do this: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/resetpassword

or

To discover your user and restore (change) 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

or

passwd -d username

change username with your real user

Set your password.

Type in:

reboot

or

reboot -f

Hope this helps

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