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On 10/06/2012 15:30, Simon Greenwood wrote:
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<div class="gmail_quote">On 10 June 2012 15:05, scoundrel50a <span
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> 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>
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<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
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<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>
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Oh yes I forgot tot tell you I can see it says read only not read
write, so why would it do that it was clean install.....how do I
check it.......and I dont know what you mean by 'removing the string
in the password' sorry........<br>
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thanks<br>
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