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TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts) Wed Oct 30, 2019, 03:17 PM Oct 2019

Linux Mint password? I installed it earlier this month and forgot... [View all]

about it for a while.

Just tried to open it, and it demanded a password-- like Ubuntu did. And, like Ubuntu, I don't remember giving it a password. Don't remember it asking for a password when I installed it.

Gave up on playing with passwords and thinking a reinstall may be best, but any suggestions?

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Linux Mint password? I installed it earlier this month and forgot... [View all] TreasonousBastard Oct 2019 OP

My guess is a reinstall. I run Linux Mint, that's what I would do. n/t RKP5637 Oct 2019 #1

boot to single user lapfog_1 Oct 2019 #2

Thanks, but didn't work. Looks like reinstall is in order. TreasonousBastard Oct 2019 #3

Linux protocol is to ask for an admin password and a user password at install defacto7 Oct 2019 #4

I don't have any serious work on the drive-- just messing around with it... TreasonousBastard Oct 2019 #5

With Linux you can set new partitions and format defacto7 Oct 2019 #6

Thanx-- it looks like Linux has many more options than Windows... TreasonousBastard Oct 2019 #7