Recover Forgotten Root Password On Ubuntu 18.04 / 20.04 LTS | Ubuntu password reset
March 18, 2021
Are you fed up? Did you lose your Ubuntu user/root password? Don't worry it normally happens with everybody. Everybody use to forget things, the password is one of them. To keep things more secure you need to change your password frequently and it leads to forgetting it. Today I'll show you the easiest way to reset your Ubuntu root password easily. Let us do it quickly. Quick
Quick recover Forgotten Root Password On Ubuntu 18.04 / 20.04 LTS
The easiest method with proper explanation.
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To reset or recover the Ubuntu root password, you need to boot Ubuntu using Advanced options for Ubuntu in the grub menu. Let us follow the steps one by one.
Steps to recover the ubuntu root password
Step1
Turn on your PC loaded with Ubuntu 20.4 or 18.04
Step2
Hover on Advanced options for Ubuntu (2nd option) hit enter
Step3
Hover on the 1st option and press e on your keyboard. To switch to edit mode.
Step4
Step5
Now type at same as shown below rw init=/bin/bash
Step6
Press F10 to reboot.
Step7
Step8
Now change the user password type command
$ passwd username
Step9
Change root password
$ passwd
Step10
Type both of the commands
$ sync $ reboot –f
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