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Repair: Recover Root Password

And again. It is known that there are people who, after installing ubuntu, is "forgotten" root password and can not access the system.

GNU / Linux is a very secure system for networking, but unlike other systems, assumes that you are intelligent and not completely protected from certain actions on the physical computer. Today we operate one of these back doors that Linux has to change the root password.

just need a LiveCD of Ubuntu. Well, the pit:

1-Start with the LiveCD

2-Open a console

3-Mount the main unit of your Linux (
here
see Section 2)

In our case, / dev/sda5 is the main unit: sudo mount / dev/sda5

4 - Make a chroot in / mnt

sudo chroot / mnt

5 - change the password as if such a thing
Passwd


6 - Finish and restart your computer.


exit sudo reboot Enjoy

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