I have forgotten the administrative password on my laptop. I have tried booting into recovery mode as suggested but I don't get the menu where I can use the cursors to select recovery mode. All I get is a line of writing sayingS:

gnu grub version 2.02 beta2-36ubuntu3.14

What am I doing wrong.

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If you remember your admin user password You could login as a root user without knowing root user password using:

Open terminal and input the next:

• sudo - su

or

• sudo -i

When logged in as root with one of the above commands, you could change its password by command:

passwd

Admin user, but not root means that this user is a member of sudo group and could execute privileged commands using its own password, not root's.

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