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It does require the use of the command line, but it is an excellent, full, clear & easy to follow exposition.
Good luck!
dmk
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TheBigMing
I had a similar problem and found the answer here:
[url]https://madalanarayana.wordpress.com...very-in-linux/
It does require the use of the command line,
Not able to get to the command line though.
to which Safeway44 replied:
Quote:
Article says after Grub screen:
"press ‘e’ here now you should be seeing three lines, the second line is the kernel line"
I press e and see a list and then:
Grub>
A Grub prompt which allows me to type anything after Grub>
Sorry, that's my fault. I should have specified the use of "chroot" which which forms the second part of the article
dmk
Last edited by TheBigMing; 04-08-2017 at 11:25 AM.
Reason: A correction - this post also shows at the end of
If you are running Kali from the CD, the default password is toor.
I've actually installed it on hard drive. During install it asked me to type a password so I'm assuming that is the password. I did write it down during this, and also was able to see what I was typing in the password box during the install. Odd.
Article says after Grub screen: "press ‘e’ here now you should be seeing three lines, the second line is the kernel line"
I press e and see a list and then:
Grub>
A Grub prompt which allows me to type anything after Grub>
BTW I don't see Kali (recovery mode) to choose from either.
But I didn't see what they see. In others words I didn't see a Terminal for me to type command prompts in black
No Kali recovery mode to choose from, I pressed e and got a prompt like this:
Grub>
I'm able to type after Grub>
Grub> is all in blue backdrop, not black like Terminal in the link above.
since it sounds like you have a live CD, just boot up the live CD, mount the filing system from the hard drive and chroot to the mounted hard drive, you should now be able to run passwd command as root. Afraid a bit too late in the night for me to give clearer instructions than that.
Alternatively on Grub, you can try to boot single user mode or initialize into a shell, both of those would should give the ability to reset it too.
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