<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 10 June 2012 15:05, scoundrel50a <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scoundrel50a@gmail.com" target="_blank">scoundrel50a@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I cant remember my log in password for one my computers and tried
all sorts of different passwords, but to no avail. I even tried
following this<br>
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but get to selecting root, and that is where things are different,
on the page it allows you to enter this 'mount -0 rw, remount /' but
mne doesnt it asks for a root password, and I cant go any
further....is there a command via the terminal to change the
password?<br><br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>That shouldn't be happening if you're booting into single user mode. You are effectively root on the console. It suggests that the disk is mounting read-only and needs checking.</div>
<div><br></div><div>The other option is to boot from a live CD or USB, mount the drive in much the same way, and unset the root password by editing /etc/shadow on the mounted disk and removing the string in the password field.</div>
<div><br></div><div>s/</div></div>-- <br>Twitter: @sfgreenwood<div>"TBA are particularly glib"<br></div><br>