How to open fedora without user password

[Biraj Karmakar]

One of my friend forgot his user password.He is using fel 15 .So, he
cannot access his fedora system.Please tell me how to do solve the
problem.

[SternData]

Does he know his root password?  If so, press ALT-F2 (or CTRL-ALT-F2)
at the login screen to get into a console, login as root, and change
the user password.

If he doesn't know the root password, he needs to boot into single user mode -
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Installation_Guide/s1-res...

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Biraj Karmakar  wrote:
> One of my friend forgot his user password.He is using fel 15 .So, he
> cannot access his fedora system.Please tell me how to do solve the
> problem.
>
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[Biraj Karmakar]

after changing the root password how to change user password

On 3/2/12, Steven Stern  wrote:
> Does he know his root password?  If so, press ALT-F2 (or CTRL-ALT-F2)
> at the login screen to get into a console, login as root, and change
> the user password.
>
> If he doesn't know the root password, he needs to boot into single user mode
>
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Installation_Guide/s1-res...
>
> On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Biraj Karmakar  wrote:
> > One of my friend forgot his user password.He is using fel 15 .So, he
> > cannot access his fedora system.Please tell me how to do solve the
> > problem.
> >
> > --
> > Biraj Karmakar https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Biraj
> > Blog : http://birajkarmakar.wordpress.com/
> > Twitter : http://twitter.com/birajkarmakar
> > Facebook : http://facebook.com/biraj.karmakar
> > e-mail : [e-mail]
> > --
> > users mailing list
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[Steve Searle]

Around 03:54pm on Friday, March 02, 2012 (UK time), Biraj Karmakar scrawled:
> after changing the root password how to change user password

on the commaned line type:

passwd <username>

where <username> is the username whose password is to be reset.

Then set a new password when prompted.

Steve

[Suvayu Ali]

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Now to your problem.

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 16:54, Biraj Karmakar  wrote:
> after changing the root password how to change user password

You did not need to change your root password, but if you have done it
already; its no big deal.

To change the user password (lets say the username is biraj), login as
root (Ctrl + Alt + F2) and do the following: "passwd biraj". You will be
prompted to enter the new password and confirm the change. Thats it!

GL