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Do you have grub installed? You can edit the kernel parameters in grub and enter into single user mode directly. It will take you to root shell directly without any password. There you can change the password for root.
Do you have grub installed? You can edit the kernel parameters in grub and enter into single user mode directly. It will take you to root shell directly without any password. There you can change the password for root.
yah I am entering into single user recovery mode with the help of grub........But I am not getting the root shell in ubuntu...
But I am getting in Redhat.......I am facing problem with ubuntu......is there any other process to reset passwd in ubuntu??????????????
In ubuntu the root user is disabled by default, in favor of using sudo for admin tasks.
Login as an admin user (one with sudo privs) and type 'sudo passwd root'.
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