Re: admin password?

[Osamu Aoki <aoki.osamu@gmail.com>]

Hi,

On Sun, Dec 30, 2012 at 06:50:20AM +0200, Dionyssis Goulimis wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I downloaded the last edition of Debian yesterday but I can't remember
> my Admin password, what is the best way to recover it?

If you did not lock system with grub password, you can always login as
root without password.

Google with "grub init=/bin/bash mount" you get many howtos describing: 

Boot with 

 init=/bin/bash

or 

 init=/bin/sh 

for GRUB.  Then at root prompt

 mount -o remount,rw /

to reset with "passwd".

Cheers,

Osamu