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I changed my password a while back, and now want to change it back to THE ORIGINAL PASSWORD. But it says it is not strong enough. What can I do?

(I am using Ubuntu 14.04 on a lenovo think pad.)

Barney Woodrow
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  • You can boot into recovery mode, open terminal, and run sudo passwd "username" and that will let you change the password. I don't think passwd cares how long the password is. Sidenote: you may need to re-mount the main drive to make it writeable. It's defaulted to non-write mode while in recovery. mount -o remount,rw / should do the trick. – B-Dawg Apr 19 '17 at 18:56

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Use the command

sudo passwd <your username>

This is does not check for security, so it should let you change your password to the one before.

BONEPIEBONEPIE
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