1. On grub-boot prompt. press e to enter the edit mode.
2. Press down arrow to reach the line that starts with kernel and press e again.
3. At the end of this line type in init=/bin/sh.
4. Then press enter to save that change and press b to boot, in a few seconds you will be on your # prompt
5. Remount the root file system in read-write mode.
mount -o remount rw /
6. Finally type passwd command to change the password.
7. Reboot and login with the new password.
Monday, August 31, 2009
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