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Can't Find Root Password

Asked by Biraj Parikh

I cannot access Synaptic or the Ubuntu Software Center because I have accidently made my admin account into a standard account. I have tried all possible passwords and was unable to access Synaptic. Can somebody please tell me how to figure out my root password so I can download packages. Thanks.

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Murali Krishna (husband-of-deepu) said : 		#1

go to user accounts and change your account type into administrator again. it should work.

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enubuntu (mr.tennents) said : 		#2

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

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Biraj Parikh (birajp) said : 		#3

I turned the whole computer off, then started recovery console to do as you said, but I was unable to access the root shell prompt. I have Ubuntu 11.10.

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Biraj Parikh (birajp) said : 		#4

I need to have the root password to unlock that option which I am trying to get, so that won't work.

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#5

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LostPassword should be up to date.

@Enrico: with 11.10, http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/resetpassword is now obsolescent.

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