Questions about the recovery of passwords.
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Inscription failed
The inscription process failed (at the password page) but now the system recongise me as having an account (email adress known) but I have no way to connect. Each time I request a new password there ...
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lost?/corrupted? seagate 500Gb external disk
I am not expert and need a patient guide.
History of events:
Only XP in internal disk with documents on a seagate 500Gb
Installed Ubuntu by partitioning external disk and booting from it
During XP ...
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How to reset my password without rebooting?
I lost my password to a VM running 11.04, but have ssh access via public key authentication.
Is there any way I can reset the password without a reboot? (This is to avoid downtime of services it's ...
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Are there any alternate means of doing password recovery?
To prevent entering U 12.04 I set my log in password to none (blank) Since then I can not authenticate as administrator as all possible passwords I tried are rejected.
Besides, I can not enter ...
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I deleted my original user account. The new account has no password. How can I enable it? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I add myself back as a sudo user?
How can enable my admin account? i deleted the other one and now the new one is without password and i cant access it and cant ...
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Get a new password [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I reset a lost Administrative (root) password?
Help somebody to me please.I Installed Ubuntu 12.04 to run along with windows X P.I forgot my password. And now I ...
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Is it normal to have two shadow files in /etc directory?
I am having an issue with logging in after an upgrade to 12.04. I have been using (unsuccessfully) this guide to reset the password.
In /etc I found two shadow files: shadow and shadow- . The files ...
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Reading network-manager password from another hdd
Today I cloned my Ubuntu 11.10 into my old hdd, and installed 12.04 into my current hdd.
What I need now is to recover passwords for my VPN connections on the network manager that is in the old 11.10 ...
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How can I find the password to www-data group to so I can change directory access rights?
I am running Ubuntu on a Oracle Vbox in Windows 7 to develop a website. I have a set of directories that have Owner rw permissions but the group www-data does not have rights on the directories . I ...
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password help please
I have version 11.10 and am having trouble login in can only access guest account and cannot get into adminastrator account. I have gone to root menu and tried to enter password change it posts ...
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Terminal will not accept password / terminale non accetta password [closed]
Translation, by Google Translate:
I just installed lxde Lubuntu errrato and a terminal command I locked the package management and updates, after erasing software from sources I typed the wrong ...
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How do I reset a lost password (using recovery mode requires me to type the password)?
I need to reset my password. I have followed these steps:
How do I reset a lost Administrative (root) password?
However, then I go to "root" or "netroot" recovery options, it tells me:
Give root ...
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How to recover Password [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I reset a lost Administrative(root) password?
I just bought a used computer with Ubuntu. It has a user name and password and other user. is there a way to sign in ...
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Installing Wireless Printer [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I reset a lost Administrative(root) password?
I've been trying to install my Lexmark Platnum Pro 905 printer to my laptop with Ubuntu, and every time I try, it ...
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Recovering deja-dup encryption password
I have lost my encryption password for backup on deja-dup.
Please can you let me know how to recover it? By the way this is after a re-installation of ubuntu 11.10, so it is probable that the old ...
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How can I reset my Windows XP password using a LiveCD?
My mom's ancient Winbook laptop, using Windows XP Professional, was also hooked up to a wireless keyboard and mouse. Unfortunately, this caused it to only accept the account password at the login ...
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how to back to be the administrator in ubuntu 11.10 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I add myself back as a sudo user?
I was exploring in user accounts. I only have my account but i changed from administrator to standart. and I didn't can put to ...
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Authorization Code [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I reset a lost Administrative(root) password?
When trying to download updates, e.g., flash, there comes up a prompt for authorization code. I tried my password ...
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How to read FTP login data stored within nautilus?
I forgot my ftp user name and password, yet I have a bookmark stored within nautilus so I can still access it. I wonder if I could extract these data from nautilus.
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How to recover boot menu if I lost my password during the installation
I got a new laptop with ubuntu ready to be installed from the factory. I installed to near the end that it's ask me to key-in login, password, retyped password and computer name. Then, I came to my ...
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Authentication token manipulation error when I try to change password
I get this message when I try to change my password. Everything started when I removed password for my username, so when I go to User Accounts, it says "None" for password. But when I try to install ...
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How can I bring up the GRUB menu?
I installed ubuntu as a dual boot system with Windows 7. I was on my user account earlier today and I changed the password. I shut down the computer and tried to re-login but I totally forgot the new ...
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How do I open Access-Your-Private-Data.desktop?
Help how do I open this. the README file says
THIS DIRECTORY HAS BEEN UNMOUNTED TO PROTECT YOUR DATA.
From the graphical desktop, click on:
"Access Your Private Data"
or
From the command line, ...
