Reset Password in Ubuntu

~Saranya & Sundar

Saranya forgot her system (Ubuntu 14.04) password and instead of recovering it she wanted to reinstall 18.04 OS, that’s when I showed her how to reset the admin password.

How to reset password in Ubuntu:

1. While booting the system press esc.
2. Choose advanced boot options then choose recovery mode and select root give enter.
3. It will open the terminal in root:
4. In that Terminal type: mount -o remount,rw /
5. mount -o remount,rw /
6. type: password type your password

To mount:

mount -rw -o remount /

How to check the list of users in your system (Ubuntu):

-d: -f1 /etc/passwd ; check list of users

passwd accountname ; to change password