Password question.

[Bruce Marshall]

On Monday 24 November 2008, Steven Vollom wrote:
> > Either you have changed your own password or the one for root. If I
> > understand it right what you wrote, you now have either the 37 character
> > password or "em" for root and / or yourself.
> >  
>
> It is the 37.  And I cannot live with that.
>

Then change it to something workable.


> > And just loosing the password is no reason to reinstall. Use the recovery
> > mode of the grub menu and then you can get a root shell to set a new
> > password: <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LostPassword>
> >  
>
> I don't have a lost password, I have one that I can only do about once a
> day. 

Then change it.


>
> Bruce, if I do this Grub Menu thing, can I get 'em' back?

You shouldn't have to do any magic tricks to change the password.   Do your:

system settings   business and change it.