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How to Reset Root Password On Ubuntu 15.04 / 15.10 / 14.04 / 14.10 / 12.04 LTS - Learn Online

1 Reboot your computer.
2 Hold Shift during boot to start GRUB menu.
3 Select advanced options for ubuntu
4 Select the option with recovery mode
5 Select root and press enter
6 Give command - mount -n -o remount,rw /
7 Press Enter
8 Give command - passwd your_username
9 Give new password
10 reboot

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  1. Avinash Bunny1 March 2017 at 15:43

    the user isn't that u see after the '@' symbol it's a machine name,username could be different

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  2. James Warren1 March 2017 at 15:43

    +Avinash Bunny k thanks i didn't know sorry I'm a computer noob lol

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  3. Avinash Bunny1 March 2017 at 15:43

    James Warren never mind ,no one's born a geek 😝

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  4. James Warren1 March 2017 at 15:43

    won't work keeps saying user not found

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  5. Praveen cv1 March 2017 at 15:43

    thanx for this man
    It really works

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  6. Rahul Ingle1 March 2017 at 15:43

    Thanks successfully reset password

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  7. I don't even know anymore1 March 2017 at 15:43

    Dude, you saved my life. And I thank you so much for that.

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  8. Umesh Dhaked1 March 2017 at 15:43

    THIS IS NOT WORKING IN UBUNTU 16.04

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  9. aaronjay alconcel1 March 2017 at 15:43

    help it said.... unable to change to sudoers gid: Operation not permitted....

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  10. Nora Gha1 March 2017 at 15:43

    Thank you very much 🖒

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  11. Darshan Basavaraj1 March 2017 at 15:43

    bro its saying authentication failure what to do reply fast

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  12. Joey Perdok1 March 2017 at 15:43

    Doesn't work is says give root password for maintenance....

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  13. Bharat Penumutchu1 March 2017 at 15:43

    Super Like....

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  14. xeran rai1 March 2017 at 15:43

    i did the same as your tutorial in my university library linux computer and also i become success in changing the root password during the grub menu.......but the shit is that when i reboot again-the root account dosen't accept the newly changed password, i dont know how to access the root privilage in my library computer......... if there's anybody with some advanced tool to crack the root password than please help me...............

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  15. Giuliano Denardi1 March 2017 at 15:43

    You saved my life, thank you so much!

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  16. Niroop Bs1 March 2017 at 15:43

    Thank you so much !! it worked.. :)

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  17. jann base1 March 2017 at 15:43

    thanks man ur the best.

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  18. Parthiban Selvaraj1 March 2017 at 15:43

    thanks successfully changed my new passwd

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  19. Tharaka Ukwatte1 March 2017 at 15:43

    It worked on Ubuntu 16.04! Thanks!

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  20. Axel Rosén-Lidholm1 March 2017 at 15:43

    Pete N it's True it doesn't work

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  21. Pete N1 March 2017 at 15:43

    does not work

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  22. Sandeep Ingale1 March 2017 at 15:43

    Very useful information. Thanks for sharing.

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  23. Giorgi Gogitidze1 March 2017 at 15:43

    mount -rw -o remount /

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