Can't install (lost Admin-password)

[Marius Gedminas]

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 03:13:17PM +0100, Tom Rausner wrote:
> ons, 23 11 2011 kl. 23:44 +0100, skrev Nils Kassube:
> > Tom Rausner wrote:
> > > By accident the admin password to the authkey on
> > > my wifes computer has been changed, and I don't
> > > know into what.

(I don't know what "password to the authkey" means.)

> > > How can I get around to change it to something
> > > known, without knowing what it is now ?
> > 
> > I think, this is what you're looking for:
> > <https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LostPassword>
> 
> Thanks a bounch for the reply, but it doesn't work;
> 
> "The standard way" gives me an error when I type in a new password;
> 
> error manipulating the authentificationtoken 
> (my translation from danish).

Which user account's password did you try to change?  root?

Incidentally, if you want to see an English description, use

  LC_ALL=C passwd <username>

> "The other way" and "The other way lucid" (I tried that one too) gives 
> this message;
> 
> bash: cannot set terminal group (-1): inapropriate ioctl for device
> bash: no job control in this shell
> root@(none):/#

Interesting, but probably should not matter.

I'm looking at the instructions and wondering if init=/bin/bash will
suffice in the presence of an initramfs.  You can't change any passwords
from an initramfs shell when the real root partition is not yet mounted.
But if you can boot into rescue mode then this is irrelevant.

Marius Gedminas
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