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How to recover the password of the Ubuntu system in 5 steps does not need to take dozens of minutes to reinstall the system. I believe that many inexperienced people do not know what to do about it. Therefore, this paper summarizes the causes and solutions of the problem. Through this article, I hope you can solve this problem.

What if you forget your operating system password? The operating system does not forget the password this option, what to do? You can say without hesitation that this kind of thing is impossible, but if you are not afraid of ten thousand, just in case.

Let's assume that when you install Ubuntu, you don't care to type in a string of characters and then forget it when you start it, or forget the user's password when you haven't turned it on for a long time, or for some other reason. At this point, the first thing you can think about is to reinstall the system in dozens of minutes. But this takes time and loses a lot of the original data. But there is a way to change your forgotten password in 5 simple steps when your computer starts, isn't it convenient?

1. Turn on the computer and press the Esc key immediately when "Press Esc to enter grub message" appears on the screen.

two。 Then three options appear, and you select "recovery mode" and press enter (see figure 1).

3. Your computer will enter shell from startup, when the command prompt appears, enter "passwd username" the username here is your user name, if you even forget the user name, there is no hurry to find a way, you can first enter "ls / home" to view the user name, and then enter the above command.

4. When prompted, you can enter your new password directly and confirm it again.

5. At this point, type "shutdown-r now" to restart your computer and enter with your new password.

In contrast, such a simple method is much more convenient for reinstalling the system.

Figure 1 Select "recovery mode" when entering the setting

After reading the above, have you mastered how to recover the password of the Ubuntu system in 5 steps without taking dozens of minutes to reinstall the system? If you want to learn more skills or want to know more about it, you are welcome to follow the industry information channel, thank you for reading!

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