Lost my password!

  • johne53
Posted: Fri, 07/09/2010 - 18:38
I'm still running on the old version of 64studio (the one that was based on Debian). I didn't want to upgrade to an Ubuntu based version because I've always had problems with Ubuntu and its derivatives. Anyway.... today I needed to launch Synaptic for the first time in over a year. It asked for my password. There are only about 4 passwords that I ever use but it wouldn't accept any of them. Next, I tried to log in as root but I got exactly the same problem. Is there a way to reset my password?
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Thanks for the tip but

  • johne53
  • 10/07/07
  • Wed, 07/14/2010 - 20:24
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Thanks for the tip but fortunately, I've just managed to resolve the issue by restoring a disk image of my Linux partition that I backed up some time ago. So I'm now into Synaptic but it hasn't helped much. Basically, I need to update to scons v1.2 but the most recent version showing in Synaptic is 0.96.93-2 Is it still possible to update Synaptic to show newer versions of its various packages?

root password recovery

  • holstein
  • 03/03/10
  • Mon, 07/12/2010 - 19:17
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does this work for you? http://www.debuntu.org/recover-root-password-single-user-mode-and-grub i dont have the debian version installed to test it right now... mh