[ubuntu-in] ubuntu9.04 authentication failed -to go to root.

[Ritesh Sinha]

On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 3:58 PM, निशांत / Nishant
<nishantsharma.in at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Sriranga(77yrsold)
> <withblessings at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I am facing problem of authentication of password. extract of terminal is
>> reproduced below:
>>
>> sriranga at ubuntu:~$ cd tesseract-ocr-read-only-408/
>> sriranga at ubuntu:~/tesseract-
>> ocr-read-only-408$ su
>> Password:
>> su: Authentication failure
>> sriranga at ubuntu:~/tesseract-ocr-read-only-408$
>
> Instead of su, use "sudo bash" to become root on a shell console. When
> prompted for password, give your own password and you should be root.
>
> regards,
> Nishant

If you're still facing issues with the password, you can boot into
recovery mode and reset it (without knowing the older password). You
can find instructions here:

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/resetpassword

Regards

Ritesh
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