Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala - recover password

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How to recover your password in Ubuntu Karmic Koala if you can not remember it?
This Video explains how to get into the grub boot menu, choose the recovery mode find out your user name and reset the password.

There are some rare cases where the Esc key is not working properly on boot, so this how-to shows how to open the boot loader menu from the Ubuntu desktop boot CD.

The keys and commands used in a list:
- F6
- Esc
- "Boot from first hard disk"
- "... (recovery mode)"
- "root"
- "getent passwd"
- "passwd user_name"
- "reboot"

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• ubuntu
• password
• recovery
• linux

[seyreyle]

wow this was good help, i was locked out and it took me seconds! thx!