[Swlug] forgotten administrative password

[Dick Bain]

On Sat, 13 Feb 2021 at 14:38, Keith Edmunds via Swlug <
swlug at mailman.lug.org.uk> wrote:

> Bill, if your default action is to reinstall, you might as well try Ben's
> suggestion - nothing to lose! Ben's instructions are straightforward (and
> will work!), so just give them a try.
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I have tried to find a simpler way and if you did a normal install of mint
and if your install was a standard one you will have given your user his
password and there will not be a root password as such; in which case if
you boot the system and at the GRUB screen choose the Advanced option and
select recovery when you are at the recovery choose Drop to Root shell and
give the command passwd (user name) you type in a new password as prompted,
then you simply type reboot -now and your system will boot and your new
password should now work 😉😀
Dick


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