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Password issue

Asked by Judygm

I downloaded your program but it never gave me a password and none of my passwords work so i cannot get into the web browsing

Password issues wont except any i have

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#1

Hold shift at boot, select recovery mode, select root then run:

passwd foo; reboot

chage foo for your username, Eg:

passwd andy; reboot

Then you can log in as your user with the new password.

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