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Re: [Question #77665]: i lost the password after installing ubuntu. how do i recover the password?

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From: midnightflash <question77665@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:32:02 -0000
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Question #77665 on firefox-3.0 in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+question/77665

    Status: Open => Answered

midnightflash proposed the following answer:
Press [Esc] at the very early start to get the boot-menu.
There select the "recovery" one and let it boot.

Then when you finally see a black screen with a command-line type:

     passwd [USERNAME]

(while [USERNAME] is the name you have)
The system will ask you to insert the new password twice.
Then type:

     shutdown -r now

and see if it works.

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