{"id":273,"date":"2025-04-01T09:56:59","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T08:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vtom.uk\/?page_id=273"},"modified":"2025-04-01T09:56:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T08:56:59","slug":"reset-lost-password-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vtom.uk\/index.php\/reset-lost-password-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Reset lost password (Ubuntu)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Restart the system and immediately be tapping ESC (escape). Tap it, don&#8217;t hold it, or the EFI configuration will start instead of the GRUB menu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Select &#8220;advanced options for Ubuntu&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"698\" src=\"https:\/\/vtom.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-1024x698.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-274\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vtom.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-1024x698.png 1024w, https:\/\/vtom.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-300x205.png 300w, https:\/\/vtom.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-768x524.png 768w, https:\/\/vtom.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image.png 1173w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Select &#8220;recovery mode&#8221;<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"697\" src=\"https:\/\/vtom.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-1-1024x697.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vtom.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-1-1024x697.png 1024w, https:\/\/vtom.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-1-300x204.png 300w, https:\/\/vtom.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-1-768x523.png 768w, https:\/\/vtom.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-1.png 1167w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the menu, select &#8220;root&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"660\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/vtom.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-276\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vtom.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-2.png 660w, https:\/\/vtom.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-2-300x161.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the prompt, press enter. Then enter the command:<br>mount -o remount,rw \/<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"702\" height=\"114\" src=\"https:\/\/vtom.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vtom.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-3.png 702w, https:\/\/vtom.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-3-300x49.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 702px) 100vw, 702px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Type passwd followed by the username for the user whose password needs to be reset e.g. in this example, the only user on the system is <em>cmis<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"451\" height=\"92\" src=\"https:\/\/vtom.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-4.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vtom.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-4.png 451w, https:\/\/vtom.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-4-300x61.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">restart the system and login<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"735\" height=\"678\" src=\"https:\/\/vtom.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-5.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vtom.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-5.png 735w, https:\/\/vtom.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/image-5-300x277.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 735px) 100vw, 735px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restart the system and immediately be tapping ESC (escape). Tap it, don&#8217;t hold it, or the EFI configuration will start instead of the GRUB menu. Select &#8220;advanced options for Ubuntu&#8221; Select &#8220;recovery mode&#8221; At the menu, select &#8220;root&#8221; At the prompt, press enter. Then enter the command:mount -o remount,rw \/ Type passwd followed by the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/vtom.uk\/index.php\/reset-lost-password-ubuntu\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Reset lost password (Ubuntu)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-273","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vtom.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vtom.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vtom.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vtom.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vtom.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vtom.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/273\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281,"href":"https:\/\/vtom.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/273\/revisions\/281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vtom.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}