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When I set up Ubuntu on my HP Chromebook 14 again after breaking it, I forgot that the admin password had to be 4 digits and set it as 1 (the password was just 1) since I don't really need a password on it. Anyway, so it set it to some random 5 digit and I can't do anything with software center, so how do I get to recovery mode?

Thanks in advance,

Kevin.

Edit: Ignore the stuff about the password needing to be 5 digits, I'm stupid, it just shows that in the user details. Still, how do you access recovery mode?

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Here is a good step-by-step to get into recovery mode:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RecoveryMode

then from the terminal, type in the following to change your password:

passwd username

where username is your username.

Terrance
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  • You can't do this on chromebook. – tactic May 22 '15 at 05:43
  • Going to have to change it then from the USB media. Same set of instructions but boot from USB instead. http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/linux/reset-your-ubuntu-password-easily-from-the-live-cd/ – Terrance May 22 '15 at 06:22
  • @KevinBrown Have you tried holding down the left shift key at startup to get you to the grub menu? – Terrance May 22 '15 at 06:31