On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 1:01 AM David <david.g_jo...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Morning All, > > I have forgotten my password to a Debian PC using an SD stick as it's > main drive. > > Looking on the internet it says the passwords are stored in /etc/passwd > and /etc/shadow > > The password string in /etc/shadow looks as if it's encoded, how can I > read this string? > > David. > > Do you have a root account? If so then log in as root and run `passwd <UserName> <NewPassword>` If you do not have root then you can login using single user mode and set a root password. https://devconnected.com/single-user-mode-secure-boot-on-ubuntu-debian/ Tim -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Debian - The universal operating system ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ https://www.debian.org/ ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀
