help with restoring a password

[Matthew Flaschen]

Trevor Nye wrote:
> I have shown a few people Ubuntu running on my Toshiba laptop, which has a
> French keyboard. The version I was running is in English. Without my
> observation (dimwit) a young laddie changed the password for me. Now I can
> not get back in. I can get the root/password ok. But I have no idea how to
> recover from the command line.

I'm not sure what you mean.  In the command-line type:

sudo passwd trevor

Obviously, replace trevor with whatever your username is.  Then, you
should be able to change your password.

If that doesn't work, tell me what you mean by "I can get the
root/password ok".

Matthew Flaschen

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