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i lost the password after installing ubuntu. how do i recover the password?

Asked by sudarsan

after installing ubuntu, when i tried booting, i found that it was not accepting my username or password or both. now i am not able to log on to ubunto at all. now how do i recover the password/username?

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midnightflash (midnightflash) said : 		#1

Press [Esc] at the very early start to get the boot-menu.
There select the "recovery" one and let it boot.

Then when you finally see a black screen with a command-line type:

     passwd [USERNAME]

(while [USERNAME] is the name you have)
The system will ask you to insert the new password twice.
Then type:

     shutdown -r now

and see if it works.

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