Authentication Password

[Jordon Bedwell]

On 11/04/2010 07:51 AM, Stephen wrote:
> I'm using Ubuntu 9.10. I can't for the life of me remember my
> Authentication Password. In System- User Settings my name, login name
> and home directory are shown. Manage Groups is in dark print, but when I
> click on it only Help or Close are highlighted. When I click on Click to
> make changes, I'm asked to authenticate my password. That is my problem,
> I don't know it. I can't even upgrade to the new version of Ubuntu from
> the Update Manager because it needs to be authenticated by my password.
> I'm hoping that there's a simple way to overcome this problem?

Reboot and when the Grub menu appears, select Recovery/Single User and
it will take you to a root mode that you can use to passwd your user and
change the password.  If you don't have that option you can edit the
Kernel options and put:

'single rw init=/bin/bash' and then it will boot into single user mode.