Password

[Basil Chupin]

On 14/10/2010 18:37, Colin Law wrote:
> On 14 October 2010 06:15, Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>  wrote:
>    
>> On 14/10/2010 14:54, Jitender Kiraria wrote:
>>      
>>> I have forgotten Password to my Ubuntu 8.0 system........Is there any
>>> way to login or restore the password.......Please Someone help me
>>> !!!!!!!!!!! Otherwise I will have to format the system........Thanx.......
>>>
>>> --
>>> Jitu
>>> 9034317617
>>>        
>>
>> By the way, Jitender, the answers you received about how to solve your
>> problem also spell out that your system - or anyone's system - is not
>> safe just because you have provided a password to logon to your system.
>>
>> If your computer is stolen then anyone knowing the answers you have been
>> given can get inside your system. Or, of course, if you allow someone to
>> access your computer without your presence, the same thing....
>>
>> Which is why there is the recommendation that you encrypt your installation.
>>      
> Though of course if he had encrypted then he would be completely stuffed now.
>
> Is that an official Ubuntu recommendation?
>
> Colin
>    

There have been numerous posts from gurus here on this subject, Perhaps 
they were all prompted by this:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EncryptedFilesystems.


BC

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