Hello and thanks for listening
I have a running Kubuntu 19.10 system on an I7 laptop. I installed this some time ago and have no idea what my password is. I've tried all the things I can find online like:
Sudo passwd using the Konsole (it asks for my current user password- which I don't know)
interrupting the boot sequence at GRUB and selecting the root (it also asks for my current user password - which I dont know)
I tried to create a startup disk with startup disk creator. I downloaded an .iso to a thumb drive, but SDC also gives a priv error.
I know very little about Linux (other than I should not have set a password!!) as you can tell . I'm out of ideas. I'm willing to do a complete re-install if that's easiest but since I can't create a startup disk, this seems problematic too.
Thanks for your patience
John
I have a running Kubuntu 19.10 system on an I7 laptop. I installed this some time ago and have no idea what my password is. I've tried all the things I can find online like:
Sudo passwd using the Konsole (it asks for my current user password- which I don't know)
interrupting the boot sequence at GRUB and selecting the root (it also asks for my current user password - which I dont know)
I tried to create a startup disk with startup disk creator. I downloaded an .iso to a thumb drive, but SDC also gives a priv error.
I know very little about Linux (other than I should not have set a password!!) as you can tell . I'm out of ideas. I'm willing to do a complete re-install if that's easiest but since I can't create a startup disk, this seems problematic too.
Thanks for your patience
John
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