{"id":3481,"date":"2016-02-08T08:02:48","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T08:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/?p=3481"},"modified":"2021-02-06T09:15:05","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T09:15:05","slug":"how-to-reset-admin-password-on-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/how-to-reset-admin-password-on-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Reset Admin Password on Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In some case if you have lost your administrative account access on Ubuntu, you can reset it within clicks. Follow below steps to reset password.<!--more--><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Restart you<a href=\"https:\/\/cpanelplesk.com\/wp62\/basic-ubuntu-setup-before-building-a-working-server\/\"> Ubuntu<\/a> system.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On Grub loading screen press\u00a0<strong>ESC<\/strong>to view list.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Now select \u201cAdvanced options for Ubuntu\u201d and press enter.\\<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Now select (recovery mod) option and press enter.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Here you will see Recovery menu. Select \u201cDrop to root shell prompt\u201d.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Change password of your administrative user. In this example, I am changing password of user \u201croot\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In case if you get error like below:<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">[wpfmb type=&#8217;error&#8217; theme=2]passwd: Authentication token manipulation errorpasswd: password unchanged[\/wpfmb]<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">remount your file system in read\/write mode using following command and try reset to password again.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"command-sh\">\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">root@ubuntu:~# mount -o remount,rw \/<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p>Done!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In some case if you have lost your administrative account access on Ubuntu, you can reset it within clicks. Follow below steps to reset password. 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