what to do if you forget a passward
 

hi
> I have a question regarding pasword .
> I have a computer that has the ubuntu on it. and I forgot my
passoward so xan you pleases help me with the recovery of the passward pleae

Did you forget the "root" password, or just the user password?

If you can login as root, you can run "passwd <username>" to reset a user's password.

If you forgot the root password, you can boot the machine into single user mode and reset the root password from there.

ubuntu has no root password, by default the account is disabled.
you can try this (not sure if it works, but might/should/could)
1. boot ubuntu livecd
2. mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
3. chroot /mnt/disk
4. passwd yourusername
sudo on livecd has no password

Hey There,

The initial setup for my box would let me do:

just enter your own user password after that.

Best wishes,

Mike