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Geek Culture / Help with resetting user password in Ubuntu 10.04?

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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 7th Jul 2010 20:55
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Hey guys,

I hadn't booted up into Ubuntu in a while, so today I decided to. Unfortunately, when I got to the login screen, I realized something absolutely horrible; I've forgotten my password!

What's worse is I KNOW I wrote it down somewhere, I just can't remember for the life of me where that was. I also failed to set up a secondary account ("I have plenty of time for that later!" I thought), so I CANNOT get into Ubuntu at all.

Does anybody know if there's anyway I can gain access into my Ubuntu account and reset the password so that I can get in? Is there some trick with a LiveCD I might be able to do?

Thanks to any and all who can help!

-CoffeeCoder

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SH4773R
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Location: AMERICA!!!
Posted: 7th Jul 2010 22:07
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Look into konboot

Who the hell is General Failure? And why is he trying to read my hard disk?

My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.
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Benjamin
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Posted: 7th Jul 2010 22:09
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http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=ubuntu+reset+password

Sorry, could only find 5 million results for this on Google.
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Yodaman Jer
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Posted: 7th Jul 2010 23:09 Edited at: 7th Jul 2010 23:17
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Quote: "Sorry, could only find 5 million results for this on Google."




Hehe, yeah...I can't believe I didn't Google it first. Thanks anyhoo! I'll let you know if what you've found helps or not.

EDIT:

I'm in! ::phwew:: Thanks!

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