On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 6:52 AM, ram sri <[email protected]> wrote: > If you forgot you password for your ubuntu system you can recover using the > following steps > > Turn your computer on. > > Press ESC at the grub prompt. > > Press e for edit. > > Highlight the line that begins kernel ………, press e > > Go to the very end of the line, add rw init=/bin/bash > > press enter, then press b to boot your system. > > Your system will boot up to a passwordless root shell. > > Type in passwd username > > Set your password. > > Type in reboot
which is why i have always password-protected the grub, and password-protected the cmos-settings as well. of course, anyone can still reset the password. the game never ends. i usually stop after trying to thwart casual, walk-in pranksters. regards niyam -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
