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Lost password on laptop

Asked by Mary Jessica Dempsey

I am trying to download Adobe flash player on my Dell laptop (with ubuntu and linux) but it asked for a password and I have no idea what my password is. I am the only user of my computer and have tried all the passwords I can think of, but I am unable to get the correct one. Is there a way I can find the password or reset it?

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Best mycae (mycae) said : 		#1

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/resetpassword

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Mary Jessica Dempsey (jdempsey5) said : 		#2

Thank you for the link!! The link told me to hold shift while booting, but the different options didn't come up; it only says mbr_2FA: I don't know what that means and it won't allow me to do anything until I press enter and then it just boots as normal. I tried pressing escape, typing in recovery, space bar, etc. Do you know what this means? Am I doing it wrong?

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mycae (mycae) said : 		#3

Are you running a dell mini 9? They fiddled with the recovery bootup procedure a bit:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DellMini9#Booting%20into%20Recovery%20mode

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Mary Jessica Dempsey (jdempsey5) said : 		#4

That did it!!! Thank you sooo much! You are truly a life saver!!!

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Mary Jessica Dempsey (jdempsey5) said : 		#5

Thanks mycae, that solved my question.