You're explaining something to me that I don't understand. In particular........... "find the partition where the system is installed, and change the hash of the password to a blank. You are looking for the file "/etc/shadow" in one of those partitions." Can you please be much more specific? Remember - you are talking to a newbie - a real newbie! Don't know what a hash is especially one to a blank. I just don't understand why this happened anyway. Can you explain that? On Sat, Dec 29, 2018 at 3:44 PM Iznogoud <iznogoud at nobelware.com> wrote: > The simplest procedure is to boot from an installation medium, "live CD" or > anything like that, find the partition where the system is installed, and > change the hash of the password to a blank. You are looking for the file > "/etc/shadow" in one of those partitions. It should be easy to mount the > partition; look up instructions online. > > Edit the file with your favourite editor. Make the second field blank. It > is > the one after your username, and fields are separated by a colon. > > When you reboot from the regular drive as usual, you can login without a > password. > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20181229/19af5774/attachment.html>