Ubuntu :: How To Recover Root Password

May 4, 2010

I forgot root password. I tried to follow this.[URL] But there is not waiting time for grub2. I hit ESC but failed ,ubuntu is booted by default. Now how can i recover root password?

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Red Hat / Fedora :: Recover User Password And Root Password If Forgotten ?

Oct 24, 2010

How to recover user password and root password in fedora if u forget

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Ubuntu :: Recover Password Or Better Have The Root Password?

Mar 15, 2010

Ubuntu is installed in dual boot in my machine. I created only one user and unfortunately I forgot the password. is there anyway to recover this password or better have the root password?

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General :: Recover Root Password In Ubuntu 9.10?

Apr 17, 2010

i am using ubuntu 9.10...i want to know if there is any way to get root password...

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General :: How To Recover Root's Password

Aug 18, 2010

I'm trying do some tests about recover root's password but I'm having some problems.My OS used to do the test is fedora 12.I'm trying to boot with ubuntu 10.04 and trying to recover the rot's password.When I edit /etc/shadown and erase the password field, the system can't logging anymore, all the other users cann't logging anymore.

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CentOS 5 :: 5.3 Recover / Reset Root Password

Jun 2, 2011

I have to recover / reset root password. I do not have the 5.3 cd, can I boot with the CentOS-5.6-i386-LiveCD.iso [URL] and follow the recovery procedure outlined below [URL]

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CentOS 5 :: Recover / Reset Password For Root Via Single User Mode

Oct 20, 2009

Can someone assist me with recovering/resetting the password for Root via Single User Mode in CentOS v5? I've modified the kernel line using Single, S, and 1 but it appears that these commands are being totally ignored as the server continues with the boot process and displays the GUI logon screen. The server in question is a VM box running on ESX v3.5 U4. The person that created this VM is no longer employed here and I've exhausted everything I know regarding Single User Mode.

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OpenSUSE Install :: Root Password Not Set \ Wasn't Prompted To Set The Root Password?

Jun 25, 2010

When I installed the OS, I wasn't prompted to set the root password. Is this a bug, or did my install hose up?

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Ubuntu :: Forgot Password - Any Way To Recover?

Feb 21, 2010

I am running the latest xubuntu and I lost my password or so I think I might be typing it wrong, is there way to recover it (easy please).

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Ubuntu :: Password Overwrite - Root Access Is Destroyed - Restore The Password File?

Mar 3, 2010

I m Trying to get vsftpd usergroups to work i accidentally moved a file called passwd from /etc/vsftpd/ to /etc/, resulting in my root access is destroyed! how to restore the passwd file so i can keep working, or do i have to re-install the entire box?

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Ubuntu :: Change Root Password - Typing A Password, No Characters Show Up?

Mar 9, 2010

I'm really new to Linux so this will probably sound like a pretty naive question to most users, but how do you change the root password?To install Java, I have to type # su into Terminal,which then asks for the password.What's weird is that when I start typing a password, no characters show up. I don't know if this is supposed to happen or not.I've found a bunch of different sites on the Internet that explain how to change the root password, but none of them seem to work for my specific work station.

I've got Ubuntu 9.10 64 bit. In the GRUB boot menu, I can choose to boot normal or in recovery mode (I'm led to believe older versions don't have this option).I've tried typing # sudo passwrd into Terminal, but I already have a root password set up apparently, so I can't change it there.

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Ubuntu :: Forgot Password - How To Recover / Change

May 21, 2010

Forgot my password, how to recover or change it?

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Ubuntu Security :: How To Recover User Password

Jan 18, 2011

My daughter has forgotten her password on our desktop system. Note this is not the admin user (me) so I can sudo nautilus to recover her files. All info online seems to pertain to recovering administrators password is there any way of recovering a non admin password? Ubuntu 9.10 but about to be upgraded 10 10.

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Ubuntu :: Recover The Forgotten Username And Password?

Jul 25, 2011

Haven't used my laptop with Ubuntu 9.04 in months, completely forgotten my username and password. I've read up other peoples advice on this but it hasn't helped, tried following this, [URL] but once i get to 'Drop to root shell prompt' i get 'Give root password for maintenance (or type Control-D to continue): I don't recall ever having a 'root password'

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General :: How To Recover The Password

Sep 14, 2010

In my PC, Linux is already installed and I forgot the password. I want to recover my LINUX system password.

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General :: How Can I Recover My Password

Jan 7, 2010

I have installed fedora10 on My PC for last month and forgotten the password and User name and Password Both super and other.Tell me How Can I open My Pc.

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Ubuntu :: Root User Directory Does Not Exist, Root Password Not Recognised?

Oct 26, 2010

I no longer have access to my root desktop. On a session I attempted to change the root username but i apparently assigned it a wrong directory that does not exist. When I rebooted with my new root username, i was instead recognised as a simple user (no root privileges). I tried the console to change to "old" root but root password is not accepted and there is no way to access to sudoer files. it seems that inserting a new username requires root privileges and i am back to square one. Simply logging with old root username and password after restart gives me a blank screen with nothing on it and cannot even reboot.

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General :: Did Not Find Any Option For Root Password For Root User In Ubuntu 9.10?

Mar 2, 2010

i used opensuse 11.1 ...there is option for root user to create password for root...but for ubuntu i did not find anything like that...so how can i create root password....or how can i use root

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Ubuntu :: Forgot Password To Login - How To Recover / Reset

Feb 19, 2010

I opened my note book. I have installed XP, Ubuntu. When I boot, I select ubuntu os. But I forgot my Password. How to recovery or reset my password?

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General :: Mail Server : Reset The Password For It Using The Password Command From The Root Login?

Jul 23, 2009

I am an absolute Linux Beginner who is being required to do a bit of admin work because the boss just fired the old linux admin. Unfortunately, one of our employees cannot remember her password to her email account and as such I need to reset it on our linux server.What I want to check is that this email account is actually a linux user account and I simply will reset the password for it using the passwd command from the root login. Is that correct?

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Ubuntu :: Root-User : Unset The Root Password?

Oct 14, 2010

A friend of mine has told me to set a root password and use root (f.e. switching to su in terminal and work with root rights instead).Is there any way to unset the root password? I know how to use sudo now.

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Debian :: Recover A Lost Password From A Rar File

May 17, 2010

How to recover a lost password from a rar file?

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General :: Recover Rooy Password In Redhat?

Feb 8, 2011

how can i recover rooy password in redhat linux..

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General :: CentOS / Sudo Doesn't Accept Root Password But Logging In As Root Works

Apr 9, 2010

I was trying to edit a file requiring root permissions, so I used sudo. I typed the root password and it failed. This happened three times, and the process was ended. I then logged in as root (su) and was able to navigate to the file and make changes as root. Am I missing something? How would I edit the sudoers file such that this password would work? Or is there another way to log in to the sudo group to make these changes? How do I set sudo passwords?

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General :: Forgot Root Password And How To Change The Password

Jul 2, 2010

i forgot root password and how to change the password

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Red Hat :: Cannot Change Root Password (let Alone Standard User's Password)?

Jan 6, 2009

At the RHEL prompt, I entered the standard user's username/password combo. Linux displays a message box stating:"Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator."Next, I entered "root" in the username field and entered the root password (which expired also--keep in mind that passwords are set to expire after x days). Linux displays a message box stating:"You are required to change your password immediately (password aged)."When prompted to "Enter current UNIX password", I entered the new password (was that the right thing to do?); Linux displays a message box stating:"The change of the authentication token failed. Please try again later or contact the system administrator."I rebooted the system and got into command line mode; somehow I logged in as "root" (don't know exactly how, but needed to change the password there). At the "#" prompt, I type "passwd root"; Linux displays the message "Changing password for user root", followed by the message "passwd: Authentication information cannot be recovered.

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Debian :: Open Office - Bypass Or Recover Password?

Jun 3, 2011

i have an old doc file from ms office 2003 which is password protected and i forgot what it was. is there a way i can bypass or recover that password?

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OpenSUSE Install :: Recover Login / Password After Upgrade?

Feb 25, 2010

i got myself in a really dumb position. i upgraded from 11.0 to 11.2 this morning. after restarting it loads up everything and then shows me a login/password prompt. i have forgotten what my login is, i know my password.

is there anyway to find the login name?

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Server :: Recover Ssh Password On WD Mybook WE II Running Gentoo

Jan 27, 2010

I installed Gentoo on my WD Mybook WE II and im forget/dont know the ssh password. I can access Public shared folder but there is no access to change it. Any idea? I need to log in to mybook via ssh to install anti virus on it.

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Debian :: Root Login Without Setting Root Password

May 14, 2015

I edited fstab to automatically mount my windows data partition on boot, but I screwed it up by not specifying the file system type, however that is not the problem, I was able to fix that easily. The problem was that when it failed to mount the partition, Debian automatically entered root and I guess that is to be expected in order for me to fix it, but I never configured a root password and it just gave me full root access without asking any password, not even my user password. I though that was strange so I set the root password and sure thing it asked me for the root password this time without automatically logging into root....

I then tried to lock the root account to see if it will ask me for a password or not, it did but of course I wasn't able to login as root because it was locked now and I was left with no way to access the system. I had to fix fstab from a live cd so that I can login normally as the user....

I didn't know what to search for or if that is the expected behavior if you don't set root password during installation, but it just seemed a bit strange to automatically enter root when you specifically disable root login during installation...

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