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I just did a clean install of Ubuntu Server 16.04.3 LTS on VMware machine. During the instalation process I was asked to type username and password and I did. But, I can't login with that user after installation. I'm pretty sure that username and password are correct. I did reinstalled it twice and same problem happens.

I've tried root, sageadmin (created during installation), admin. None of them are correct, it gives me "Login incorrect" message.

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Reset to default
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You can reset password and try...

  1. Reboot your computer
  2. Hold Shift during boot to start GRUB menu
  3. Highlight your image and press E to edit
  4. Find the line starting with "linux" and append rw init=/bin/bash at the end of that line
  5. Press Ctrl+X to boot.
  6. Type in passwd username
  7. Set your password.
  8. Type in reboot. If that doesn't work, hit Ctrl+Alt+Del
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  • Thx for help. Works fine
    – troncomputers
    Sep 20, 2017 at 10:38
  • Doesn't work in 18.04
    – Christophe Keller
    Dec 30, 2018 at 21:19
  • On Ubuntu 18.04 I had to remount the drive with write mode enabled by entering mount -o remount,rw '/' before trying to change the password
    – Ludwig
    Aug 29, 2019 at 18:04

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