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What if... i lost my linux password

A workthru of linux password recovery

2026-04-04 18:43:00 (UTC)19 s

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Well, this is geuinaly not so helpful if you also lost your data encryption password.

break in

we gonna use bash as init… by modifing the kernel cmd line.

press β€˜e’ key on desired Linux boot entry in grub or systemd-bootd, and overwrite correspond params with these:

rw init=/bin/bash console=ttyS0 earlyprintk=ttyS0

and boot.

and jumped in to a root shell.

break in

and you can run passwd as much as you like it.

# What if... i lost my linux password