Recent content by maneagle

Hey - I want to thank you again for all your great suggestions. I finally decided to just create a new computer out of my old Lenovo Thinkpad. I chose to wipe the disk and install only Linux Manjaro and that seems to be working out. I now have an OS where I have control. I know the password; I...

I am using Linux Mint 17. If I could somehow delete it and upload a later version and that way get over this password problem, I am willing to do that.

it asked for the password. It did not say anything about maintenance. It said if I don't have the password continue by hitting control D I think.

There must be a Unix password. because the system asks for it what I try change the maneagle password. and when I type in the mount change it still asks for the password when I try to change the maneagle password. Thank you for helping me.

And thank you again for helping me. I am very anxious to get this password thing taken care of. So what do I do now? The Unix password is required. I don't see how I replace or delete that Unix password.

The Unix password was needed. When I typed mount -o rw,remount / in Terminal I was told "Only root can do that."

no I have not encrypted the harddrive I just want to regain control of my computer. I cannot download new software because it asks for my password and I don't know about the root password I'm just talkin about the password that keeps coming up for KDE wallet and for software and for other...

How do I change the forgotten password for Linux Mint?