FORGOT MY LOGIN PASSWORD, POP OS 20.04

[Joe Jackman]

Anyway i can get in?

[Sauron]

Yes, you can use a live cd/pendrive to change it. Mount the root partition of your installation wherever you want, then:

passwd --root MOUNT_POINT USER_NAME

 

[Joe Jackman]

2 minutes ago, Sauron said:

Yes, you can use a live cd/pendrive to change it. Mount the root partition of your installation wherever you want, then:

passwd --root MOUNT_POINT USER_NAME

 

can you walk me through it though? very new to linux- also i made a recovery partition when i installed.

[Joe Jackman]

1 hour ago, Joe Jackman said:

can you walk me through it though? very new to linux- also i made a recovery partition when i installed.

it doesnt work

[Sauron]

1 hour ago, Joe Jackman said:

it doesnt work

I don't think I said "chroot" anywhere...?

 

"mount point" and "user name" are just place holders for the path where you mounted the partition and the user name of the account you want to change the password of... for example if you mounted the root partition in /mnt and the user was "pluto" the command would be

passwd --root /mnt pluto

and this should be done without chrooting...

[Joe Jackman]

On 6/3/2020 at 5:27 PM, Sauron said:

I don't think I said "chroot" anywhere...?

 

"mount point" and "user name" are just place holders for the path where you mounted the partition and the user name of the account you want to change the password of... for example if you mounted the root partition in /mnt and the user was "pluto" the command would be

passwd --root /mnt pluto

and this should be done without chrooting...

I just remembered my password, i missed this so much TY though, You already know i am a noob in the linux world