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This article is about how to reset the Root password in the Ubuntu system, the editor thinks it is very practical, so I share it with you to learn. I hope you can get something after reading this article.

First, you need to boot or restart your Ubuntu system. You need to enter the GRUB menu first. If your system is running on VirtualBox, press SHIFT on the keyboard to bring up the startup menu.

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Then, press the e key to edit the GRUB parameter, which will display the following interface:

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Scroll down to find the line starting with 'linux / boot/vmlinuz', which is marked in the following figure:

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Find a paragraph: "ro quiet splash $vt_handoff"

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Replace "ro quiet splash $vt_handoff" with rw init=/bin/bash to set read and write commands to the root file system:

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Then, press Ctrl + X or F10 to restart the system, and your system will enter the root shell interface, and you can run the following command to make sure that your root file system has read and write access:

$mount | grep-w /

The rw in the screenshot below confirms read-write access.

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To reset the password, execute the following command:

$passwd

Enter a new password and confirm it, and then get a prompt from password updated successfull:

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After setting the root password successfully, execute the following command to restart to enter the Ubuntu system:

The above $exec / sbin/init is how to reset the Root password in the Ubuntu system. The editor believes that there are some knowledge points that we may see or use in our daily work. I hope you can learn more from this article. For more details, please follow the industry information channel.

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