{"id":779,"date":"2012-07-17T11:59:07","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T11:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=779"},"modified":"2012-07-17T11:59:07","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T11:59:07","slug":"how-to-reset-forgotten-ubuntu-password","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/how-to-reset-forgotten-ubuntu-password\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Reset Forgotten Ubuntu Password"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forgot your Ubuntu password? How to reset it? There are many reasons you might need to reset your forgotten Ubuntu password:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Someone gave you a computer with Ubuntu installed on it but not the password for the user account.<\/li>\n<li>You just installed Ubuntu and forgot what password you selected during the installation process.<\/li>\n<li>You have too many passwords in your life and can&#8217;t keep track of them all.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-780\" title=\"ubuntu-login\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ubuntu-login.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ubuntu-login.png 474w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/ubuntu-login-300x144.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well, this tutorial will help you reset your Ubuntu login password, regardless of what reason you have forgotten your password.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How to Reset Forgotten Ubuntu Password:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Reboot your computer, and then as soon as you see the GRUB Loading screen, make sure to hit the ESC key so that you can get to the menu.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-781\" title=\"grub-loading\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/grub-loading.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/grub-loading.png 500w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/grub-loading-300x90.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Use the Up \/Down arrow keys to select &#8220;Recovery Mode&#8221;, which is usually the second boot option.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-782\" title=\"recovery-mode\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/recovery-mode.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/recovery-mode.png 500w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/recovery-mode-300x122.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Wait for all the boot-up processes to finish, you&#8217;ll be presented with a few options. In this case, you want the &#8220;Drop to root shell prompt&#8221; option so press the Down arrow to get to that option, and then press Enter to select it.\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-783\" title=\"root-shell\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/root-shell.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"191\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/root-shell.png 500w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/root-shell-300x114.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Use the following command to reset your forgotten Ubuntu password.\n<p><code>passwd &lt;username&gt;<\/code><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-784\" title=\"reset-ubuntu-password\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/reset-ubuntu-password.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"205\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/reset-ubuntu-password.png 500w, https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/reset-ubuntu-password-300x123.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>After changing your password, use the following commands to reboot your system. (The sync command makes sure to write out data to the disk before rebooting)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>After it finishes booting, just enter the password that you reset it to, and you are in! Forgot your Ubuntu password? it&#8217;s incredibly easy to reset your password with this trick.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forgot your Ubuntu password? How to reset it? There are many reasons you might need to reset your forgotten Ubuntu password: Someone gave you a computer with Ubuntu installed on it but not the password for the user account. You just installed Ubuntu and forgot what password you selected during the installation process. You have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[324,325,323],"class_list":["post-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-others","category-tips-tricks","tag-forgot-ubuntu-password","tag-forgotten-ubuntu-password","tag-reset-ubuntu-password"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":785,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions\/785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}