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login password bypass

Asked by clifton savage

bought a used lap top and can't do anything because it has a owner password that i do not have and was not given to me

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Hold shift at boot and boot to recovery mode, then select root. You can then run:

cd /home; ls

ls = LS in lower case

You can now see the usernames on the system. You can now run:

passwd foo

replace foo with the username you see, you can now reboot with:

reboot

and log in as foo, with the password you set

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clifton savage (savage22222) said : 		#2

says cd /home;ls not found

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Then you missed the space between cd and /home

the command is:
cd /home;ls

not:
cd/home;ls

Try again

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