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NOT AUTHENTICATED

Asked by Peter Maurer

The Update Manager reports Important Security Updates but says they are NOT AUTHENTICATED. What do I do? How do I delete them and protect my 10.04 from receiving others?

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Ian Ace (iaculallad) said : 		#1

Open your terminal and try:

sudo apt-key update

HTH.

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Peter Maurer (petermaurer1) said : 		#2

I did as you suggested but the terminal did not recognize my password.

I followed some instructions from the Ubuntu web site and went into the Root Shell to change my password.  I was successful in that my new password can revive my computer from sleep mode but, once again, the terminal does not recognize my new password.

What can I do?

--- On Sun, 7/11/10, Ian Ace A. Culallad <email address hidden> wrote:

From: Ian Ace A. Culallad <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: [Question #117307]: NOT AUTHENTICATED
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Date: Sunday, July 11, 2010, 12:13 AM

Your question #117307 on Ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/117307

    Status: Open => Answered

Ian Ace A. Culallad proposed the following answer:
Open your terminal and try:

sudo apt-key update

HTH.

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Best marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#3

I don't remember user and password what i can do

You can do this: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/resetpassword

or

To discover your user and restore (change) the password you can:

Start the pc the when you see the GRUB row...

Press ESC.

Press "e" for edit.

Highlight the line that begins kernel ………, and press "e"

Go to the very end of the line, add rw init=/bin/bash

press enter, then press "b" to boot your system.

Your system will boot up to a passwordless root shell.

Type in grep -i 1000 /etc/passwd

The system must show a row with your user name at the start of the row
for example:
danilo:x:1000:1000:ubuntu,,,:/home/danilo:/bin/bash

Here my user is danilo

Then to change your user password type in:

passwd username

or

passwd -d username

change username with your real user

Set your password.

Type in:

reboot

or

reboot -f

Hope this helps

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Peter Maurer (petermaurer1) said : 		#4

Thanks marcobra (Marco Braida), that solved my question.

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Peter Maurer (petermaurer1) said : 		#5

And, thank you Ian for pointing me in the right direction.