When you install Ubuntu on your system. The first user you have created get administrative privileges along with root account. You can also create administrative user latest installation of Ubuntu using main account.
In some case if you lost your administrative account access on Ubuntu, you can reset it within 2 minutes. I am running Ubuntu 14.10 on Virtual Box. Follow below steps to reset password.
- 1. Restart you Ubuntu system.
- 2. On Grub loading screen press
ESC to view list. - 3. Now select “Advanced options for Ubuntu” and press enter.
- 4. Now select following (recovery mod) option and press enter.
- 5. Here you will see Recovery menu. Select “Drop to root shell prompt”.
- 6. Change password of your administrative user. For this example, I am changing password of user “root”
[email protected]:~# passwd root
- 7. In case you get error like below.
passwd: Authentication token manipulation error passwd: password unchanged
remount your file system in read/write mode using following command and try reset password again.
[email protected]:~# mount -o remount,rw /
thanks it helped alot
I get through all of this but my keyboard will not type when it tells me to enter new password.
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Many thanks, this worked for me. I’m new to VirtualBox this saved me a lot of time.