I have forgotten my password, so I am trying to reset it in recovery mode. When I drop down to shell through the recovery mode menu, I make the system read/write:
mount -o remount,rw /
then, when I type and enter the command:
root@computer:~# passwd [User name]
Nothing happens except passwd outputting its options:
Usage: passwd [options] [LOGIN]
#list of passwd options...
There is a space in the user name, as shown. Will that have any effect on passwd's functionality?
Should I use
chmod 640 /etc/shadow
that I found here, even though I am not getting the same error?
sudo pwck showed many things (user avahi, user kernoops, etc.) all saying password change in the future. I have used the command passwd -e User name (force expire) in the past in hopes that it would prompt me to enter a new password when I rebooted but that didn't do anything again.
ls -l outputs:
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 3 root 4096 Sep 1 2021 snap
Thanks.
*@steeldriver Thanks. The 'real' user name was just the first half before the space. So in comparison to this post, it would have just been "User".
Super simple. Cheers!
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