On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 03:07:09PM -0500, Comer Duncan wrote: > I recently got wheezy up and running. I installed xfce4 and like it. > > However, today in the process of trying to spawn a root terminal (in > Accessories) and going through a cycle of trying to get authorized but > being prevented by repeated complaints that the system password I used was > not correct, I now find that I can not get logged in in single-user mode! > I have thus royally screwed up. So, how can I get the system password > changed to something new? > > Thanks for help and apologies for making such an error. Boot using a Live CD, then as root: mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/sda1 (or whatever device is your root partition) chroot /mnt/sda1 passwd
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