Friday, September 9, 2016

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Password problem

 

On Thu, Sep 8, 2016 at 8:13 PM, Scott scottro@nyc.rr.com
[LINUX_Newbies] <LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 08, 2016 at 04:32:54PM -0700, james.jolin@gmail.com [LINUX_Newbies] wrote:
>> Installed Linux Mint 17.3 and did everything right (I think). I went to run the program, was asked for the usual (user name and password). It told me I did not have the right password user name combination. I can't remember how I get out of this mess...I think I saw this once before, but my memory fails me.
>> Jim wa9arb
>>
> https://community.linuxmint.com/tutorial/view/339
> Does that help?
>
> (Untested by me).
> Jeff, if you're around whatever the official Ubuntu way to do it might
> help. I'm at a FreeBSD shop these days so haven't had to do this in a long
> time.

That's probably the easiest way. The other way would involve booting
from a live USB stick, chrooting into the installed system and running
passwd there. (at least that's a more old-school way).

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