How can I recover lost password for Ubuntu OS?

Answer 1

Lol...and ubuntu tries to be secure. This is how it was in 7.04 anyway.

Heres a quote from the ubuntu forms.

"4. Turn your computer on.

5. Press ESC at the grub prompt.

6. Press e for edit.

7. Highlight the line that begins kernel ........., press e

8. Go to the very end of the line, add rw init=/bin/bash

9. press enter, then press b to boot your system.

10. Your system will boot up to a passwordless root shell.

CAUTION: This is a FULL ROOT SHELL! You can damage your system if not careful!

11. Type in passwd <username>. Set your password.

12. Type in reboot." End quote.

Information pulled down from

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-3609.html