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What happens when you dont remember root password in Ubuntu ?

Posted by Rajesh Setty on Wednesday, December 15, 2010,

Hi,

This is my first Blog for Linux. I am starting this page with issue I have faced.

I am new to Linux. When I started working with Ubuntu, I lost root password. Luckily with help of friend I was able to reset password. I am more than happy to share the same on this site:

With following assumption below commands will work:
1) If you are able to login to Ubuntu with another user who has Administrator rights
2) Ubuntu is installed on standalone machine.

1) sudo usermod -p '!' root --Disables root us...

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