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Using live USB/CD : (using recovery mode)

Boot from live usb/cd and open terminal.
Use gparted or fdisk -l to identify elementary OS partition from the list.

The partition is just something like /dev/sda1
Mount this somewhere (Be sure to select correct partition)
```
 sudo mount /dev/sda10 /mnt
```

Note :

. In my system elementary OS partiton is /dev/sda10, replace it with yours.
. If you have a lvm partiton, you need to mount it to /mnt/

Now run the following command as it is:

 for d in dev sys run proc; do sudo mount --bind /$d /mnt/$d; done

Now become root of system,
```
 sudo chroot /mnt
```
Set the password for the account:
```
 passwd [user_name]
```
Now reboot

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Using live USB/CD : (using recovery mode)

Boot from live usb/cd and open terminal.
Use gparted or fdisk -l to identify elementary OS partition from the list.

The partition is just something like /dev/sda1
Mount this somewhere (Be sure to select correct partition)
```
 sudo mount /dev/sda10 /mnt
```

Note :

. In my system elementary OS partiton is /dev/sda10, replace it with yours.
. If you have a lvm partiton, you need to mount it to /mnt/

Now run the following command as it is:

 for d in dev sys run proc; do sudo mount --bind /$d /mnt/$d; done

Now become root of system,
```
 sudo chroot /mnt
```
Set the password for the account:
```
 passwd [user_name]
```
Now reboot

Imgur

_{source here}

Using live USB/CD : (using recovery mode)

Boot from live usb/cd and open terminal.
Use gparted or fdisk -l to identify elementary OS partition from the list.

The partition is just something like /dev/sda1
Mount this somewhere (Be sure to select correct partition)
```
 sudo mount /dev/sda10 /mnt
```

Note :

. In my system elementary OS partiton is /dev/sda10, replace it with yours.
. If you have a lvm partiton, you need to mount it to /mnt/

Now run the following command as it is:

 for d in dev sys run proc; do sudo mount --bind /$d /mnt/$d; done

Now become root of system,
```
 sudo chroot /mnt
```
Set the password for the account:
```
 passwd [user_name]
```
Now reboot

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edited Nov 5, 2015 at 4:44

Ravan

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Using live USB/CDUsing live USB/CD : :(using recovery mode)

Boot from live usb/cd and open terminal.
Use gparted or fdisk -l to identify elementary OS partition from the list.

The partition is just something like /dev/sda1
Mount this somewhere (Be sure to select correct partition)
```
 sudo mount /dev/sda10 /mnt
```

Note :

. In my system elementary OS partiton is /dev/sda10, replace it with yours.
. If you have a lvm partiton, you need to mount it to /mnt/

Now run the following command as it is:

 for d in dev sys run proc; do sudo mount --bind /$d /mnt/$d; done

Now become root of system,
```
 sudo chroot /mnt
```
Set the password for the account:
```
 passwd [user_name]
```
Now reboot

Imgur

_{source here}

Using live USB/CD :

Boot from live usb/cd and open terminal.
Use gparted or fdisk -l to identify elementary OS partition from the list.

The partition is just something like /dev/sda1
Mount this somewhere (Be sure to select correct partition)
```
 sudo mount /dev/sda10 /mnt
```

Note :

. In my system elementary OS partiton is /dev/sda10, replace it with yours.
. If you have a lvm partiton, you need to mount it to /mnt/

Now run the following command as it is:

 for d in dev sys run proc; do sudo mount --bind /$d /mnt/$d; done

Now become root of system,
```
 sudo chroot /mnt
```
Set the password for the account:
```
 passwd [user_name]
```
Now reboot

Imgur

_{source here}

Using live USB/CD : (using recovery mode)

Boot from live usb/cd and open terminal.
Use gparted or fdisk -l to identify elementary OS partition from the list.

The partition is just something like /dev/sda1
Mount this somewhere (Be sure to select correct partition)
```
 sudo mount /dev/sda10 /mnt
```

Note :

. In my system elementary OS partiton is /dev/sda10, replace it with yours.
. If you have a lvm partiton, you need to mount it to /mnt/

Now run the following command as it is:

 for d in dev sys run proc; do sudo mount --bind /$d /mnt/$d; done

Now become root of system,
```
 sudo chroot /mnt
```
Set the password for the account:
```
 passwd [user_name]
```
Now reboot

Imgur

_{source here}

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created Nov 4, 2015 at 7:41

Ravan

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Using live USB/CD :

Boot from live usb/cd and open terminal.
Use gparted or fdisk -l to identify elementary OS partition from the list.

The partition is just something like /dev/sda1
Mount this somewhere (Be sure to select correct partition)
```
 sudo mount /dev/sda10 /mnt
```

Note :

. In my system elementary OS partiton is /dev/sda10, replace it with yours.
. If you have a lvm partiton, you need to mount it to /mnt/

Now run the following command as it is:

 for d in dev sys run proc; do sudo mount --bind /$d /mnt/$d; done

Now become root of system,
```
 sudo chroot /mnt
```
Set the password for the account:
```
 passwd [user_name]
```
Now reboot

Imgur

_{source here}

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