Friday, 27 September 2013

Easily Reset your Password quickly Ubuntu/Linux Mint/ and Related Distributions

Reset your Password quickly Ubuntu/Linux Mint/ and Related Distributions.


Hello guys this is very easy to do reset your password quickly Ubuntu/Linux Mint/ and Related Distributions. As many people may face this problem and linuxtrendz is here to help you out from this problem. And this is for all the Ubuntu/any Linux versions to reset your password.
Step one is to get into recovery mode.

Reset your Password quickly Ubuntu/Linux Mint/
Now you will be entering in this following screen. Now select "root - Drop to root shell prompt" and press "Ok"


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Here is the command to know about username if you forgot.



ls /home

But you should remember that in linux case sensitive applies for username and password.
mount -rw -o remount /

Now you are into the magic box here is command to reset your password for your user account.
passwd username

Now enter new password and confirm the password.

EXAMPLE like
passwd linuxtrendz

Reboot the PC by typing exit command

 

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