14 April 2012

Recover Computer Password in UBUNTU

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“If you forget system Login password in UBUNTU system, You can Recover it back by the following trick”




-Turn your computer on.

-Press ESC at the grub prompt

-Press e for editing.

-Highlight the line that begins kernel

-Press e

-Go to the very end of the line, and add rw init=/bin/bash

-Press enter,and then press b to boot your system.

-Your system will boot up to a password-less root shell.

-Type in password username

-Set your password.

-Type in reboot

Note: This “Password Recovery Trick” was not prepared or explained by me, After I got a query about this from Some one by name P. Vamsi from our “ASK ME!” section. I asked my friend for the solution, As I am not good in Linux/Ubuntu. So I am not sure whether it will works fine or not. He told me that I works fine except for some security setting cases.

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Author: Deepak
Deepak Rana is the CEO and Founder of Technofers. He is a young Blogger from India.