password problem

[Eugene Cormier]

Hi Ray ....disregard my last email....I just realized those instructions
won't work unless you have the root password for the sudo
command.....the only way you're going to be able to reset the root
password is to chroot and fix it or to reinstall ....what follows is the
chroot instructions:

1) boot from the ubuntu live cd, choose "try Ubuntu"
2) open a terminal and run the following (for the second command you
MUST replace /dev/sda1 with the name of your root partition....might be
sda1, sda2 sda3....whatever you choose for your root partition when you
installed ubuntu):

mkdir temp
mount /dev/sda1 ./temp
chroot ./temp
sudo passwd root

After you enter the new password (twice) reboot and things should work again

Of course there is one other possibility which is, did you by chance
remove your user from any groups recently....don't ever remove your user
from the "wheel" group as that would stop you from being able to gain
administration privileges from your user account (you can check this in
System - Administration - Users and Groups)

Cheers
Eugene

On 01/08/11 13:58, raymond house wrote:
> Hi Victor, yes I log on ok, it's just when I try to use synaptic or
> download software that it does not work.  Ray

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