http://linuxgravity.com/resetting-linux-root-password-on-ubuntu Linux tutorials, guides, howtos, tips, tricks and hacks Mon, 26 Jul 2010 05:02:33 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://linuxgravity.com/resetting-linux-root-password-on-ubuntu/comment-page-1#comment-122 Timothy Jones Sat, 03 Oct 2009 17:54:32 +0000 http://linuxgravity.com/?p=321#comment-122 If you don't have a recovery mode line in your menu.list file, you can edit the boot command line by pressing "e", and then adding "init=/bin/bash" to the end. Then instead of running init to get things started, it will drop you into a shell ASAP, and you can run any command you like, including passwd. If you don’t have a recovery mode line in your menu.list file, you can edit the boot command line by pressing “e”, and then adding “init=/bin/bash” to the end. Then instead of running init to get things started, it will drop you into a shell ASAP, and you can run any command you like, including passwd.

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