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my password doesn't work in the terminal

Asked by rari.riruri

I want to install winrar and I put in the terminal "sudo apt-get install unrar" and then I should put my user password. I put it but it doesn't work, it say "password incorrect"

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
Package: nautilus 1:2.26.2-0ubuntu2
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=es_ES.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic i686

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This question was originally filed as bug #389592.

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rari.riruri (sarapdit) said : 		#1
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Brian Murray (brian-murray) said : 		#2

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs#When%20not%20to%20file%20a%20bug.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

boot to recovery root console

you can then run:

passwd <your username here>

and set the password again

you can then run:

shutdown -r now

and log back in

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