[Tfug] Ubuntu password

[DON KIERZEK]

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LostPassword


>From: "Andrew Lenards" <andrew.lenards at gmail.com>
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>No clue on the validity of this ... and I haven't pulled this trick myself 
>-
>if you don't have a GRUB password I know that you should be able to recover
>the root password through Trick #4:
>
>http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-10sysadtips/index.html?ca=drs-
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>On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Christopher Robbins <robbinsc at gmail.com>
>wrote:
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> > Do you have the root password?
> >
> > On Fri, Jul 25, 2008 at 7:59 AM, Don Freeman <DFreeman at pagnet.org> 
>wrote:
> >
> >>  Well I did it again. I let my Ubuntu install sit several months unused
> >> and have forgotten my username and password. Is there a way to recover 
>or do
> >> I need to reinstall?
> >>
> >> Don W. Freeman
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