[mythtv-users] Forgot password; Choose door A, B or C?

[Leif Pihl]

That sounds too easy. 
If that was true, then every machine that one could physically get one's hands on would be a security risk. 
Is there some sort of a "catch" that I don't understand?


LP


p.s.: 
Is the "passwd" your referred to a command / program? 









On Apr 24, 2014, at 12:00 PM, John Marshall wrote:

>> ||   (C) 	do some other sort of a "hack" to get around my password(s) issue(s).
> 
> Boot to single-user mode and just set the password to whatever you want.  Select the "recovery mode" boot option and then drop to a root prompt, then use passwd to set a new one.  You don't need to know the old one.
> 
> http://makezine.com/2008/09/03/howto-reset-a-lost-ubuntu-pass/
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