Lost password on Trisquel machine!
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Hello to all. I came here because none of the other forums could helped me.
I am not using Trisquel anymore, although I consider the concept interesting, but not practical, anyway...I have some photos in the disk, that I would like to retrieve, particularly photos of my then pregnant wife. It is somewhat important to us to get those unique photos that we store on that trisquel computer.
The thing is I don't know any more, what was my password then... I have two accounts on that machine, one mine, and the other of my wife. We (me and my wife) could enter in my wife account, because we know the password of her account, but the photos we need were stored in my account, because I am the "linux" person in the house, she never cared much using linux and her account.
I've seen some other forum, but that didn't help much because of one simple reason, that irritates me a lot (sorrY):
When I click in the advance mode, the computer prompts right away to enter username, and then password! That's exactly what I don't know! It didn't make much sense... I am handed thigh in this situation!
With this set of informations could anyone help me? Please.
Thanks in advance and I will consider contribute more for real free software like trisquel Linux.
can't attach photos to prove what I said...
> I have some photos in the disk, that I would like to retrieve,
> particularly photos of my then pregnant wife. It is somewhat important
> to us to get those unique photos that we store on that trisquel
> computer.
> The thing is I don't know any more, what was my password then
Do you recall whether you encrypted your disk or home directories when
installing Trisquel? If so, you're out of luck without a password. If
not, the following might work:
You'll need a bootable CD or USB running Trisquel (or another distro).
If you don't have one and don't know how to create one, see here.[1]
Boot into the CD or USB drive and select "Try Trisquel without
installing."
Once you're in a Trisquel live session, open the file manager. On the
left-hand side of the window you will see a list of media. Hopefully
your hard disk will be in there. If the disk is not encrypted, you
should be able to click on it and mount it without a password.
If that works, you should see a "home" directory. Enter it. There, you
should see a directory for each user. If they are not encrypted, you
should be able to enter these folders without a password.
If that works, copy the files you want to recover onto some other
medium.
Good luck!
> Do you recall whether you encrypted your disk or home directories when
> installing Trisquel?
Ah. Just reread your message and saw that you were able to get into your
wife's account. This means that the disk is not encrypted, which is
good. That was my worry, since the graphical Trisquel installer has an
option to encrypt the entire disk. It does not have an option to encrypt
your home folder, so unless you used the text installer (which does have
such an option) you should be okay.
I am a translator!
You can reset your user password by chrooting using a live CD:
https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/linux/reset-your-ubuntu-password-easily-from-the-live-cd/
> You can reset your user password by chrooting using a live CD:
This is what I would suggest if the OP wanted to go back to using this
system. I am under the impression that they just want to recover data
from it, which can be achieved more easily by mounting the disk with
graphical tools.
yuuuuuuuuuupppppppppiiiiiii! Thanks, thanks, thanks... but thanks is not enough as I see. what can I do to be honorable, to be thankfull to your help, to the help of this fórum?
I would be waitting for you to tell me...
One possible alternative to external boot:
Let's assume user accounts are called "wife" and "husband".
IF "wife" account has admin/sudo rights, using this account she can
explore "husband" folders and get his files.
When using standard Trisquel (Mate):
1. Applications menu
2. Accessories
3. MATE Terminal
4. Type in: sudo caja +ENTER
5. Click on UP arrow icon, and you will see both accounts folders
When using Trisquel mini (LXDE)
1. Applications menu
2. System tools
3. LXTerminal
4. Type in: sudo pcmanfm +ENTER
5. Click on UP arrow icon, and you will see both accounts folders
El 13/10/19 a les 22:03, name at domain ha escrit:
> Hello to all. I came here because none of the other forums could helped me.
> I am not using Trisquel anymore, although I consider the concept
> interesting, but not practical, anyway...I have some photos in the
> disk, that I would like to retrieve, particularly photos of my then
> pregnant wife. It is somewhat important to us to get those unique
> photos that we store on that trisquel computer.
> The thing is I don't know any more, what was my password then... I have
> two accounts on that machine, one mine, and the other of my wife. We
> (me and my wife) could enter in my wife account, because we know the
> password of her account, but the photos we need were stored in my
> account, because I am the "linux" person in the house, she never cared
> much using linux and her account.
> I've seen some other forum, but that didn't help much because of one
> simple reason, that irritates me a lot (sorrY):
> When I click in the advance mode, the computer prompts right away to
> enter username, and then password! That's exactly what I don't know! It
> didn't make much sense... I am handed thigh in this situation!
> With this set of informations could anyone help me? Please.
> Thanks in advance and I will consider contribute more for real free
> software like trisquel Linux.
>
Another alternative to external boot (works up to Trisquel v8):
1. Hold [Shift] key when booting computer (don't wait anything appears
on screen)
2. You will be presented with a black screen titled "GNU GRUB"
3. With keyboard arrows, select "Advanced options for Trisquel
GNU/Linux" and press ENTER.
4. Select "Trisquel GNU... (recovery mode)" and press ENTER
5. After many boot messages, you will be presented with a blue screen
6. Use keyboard arrows to select "network" option and press ENTER (this
will enable write capabilities to system volume)
7. In same menu/screen select "root" option and press ENTER
Let's assume user accounts are called "wife" and "husband".
Type in this, to reset "husband" password:
passwd husband +ENTER
After this, you can type in the "reboot" command and you will be
entirely happy.
El 13/10/19 a les 22:03, name at domain ha escrit:
> Hello to all. I came here because none of the other forums could helped me.
> I am not using Trisquel anymore, although I consider the concept
> interesting, but not practical, anyway...I have some photos in the
> disk, that I would like to retrieve, particularly photos of my then
> pregnant wife. It is somewhat important to us to get those unique
> photos that we store on that trisquel computer.
> The thing is I don't know any more, what was my password then... I have
> two accounts on that machine, one mine, and the other of my wife. We
> (me and my wife) could enter in my wife account, because we know the
> password of her account, but the photos we need were stored in my
> account, because I am the "linux" person in the house, she never cared
> much using linux and her account.
> I've seen some other forum, but that didn't help much because of one
> simple reason, that irritates me a lot (sorrY):
> When I click in the advance mode, the computer prompts right away to
> enter username, and then password! That's exactly what I don't know! It
> didn't make much sense... I am handed thigh in this situation!
> With this set of informations could anyone help me? Please.
> Thanks in advance and I will consider contribute more for real free
> software like trisquel Linux.
>
when I press advance option it shout me out:
→Enter username; and then...
→Enter password;
...which are the thing that I forgot, the password... Thanks anyway
Step 3 makes you see the step 4 for sure.
I think this is the best procedure to restore best situation.
El 15/10/19 a les 22:47, name at domain ha escrit:
> when I press advance option it shout me out:
> →Enter username; and then...
> →Enter password;
>
> ...which are the thing that I forgot, the password... Thanks anyway
>
El 14/10/19 a les 10:21, Narcis Garcia ha escrit:> Another alternative
to external boot (works up to Trisquel v8):
>
> 1. Hold [Shift] key when booting computer (don't wait anything appears
> on screen)
> 2. You will be presented with a black screen titled "GNU GRUB"
> 3. With keyboard arrows, select "Advanced options for Trisquel
> GNU/Linux" and press ENTER.
> 4. Select "Trisquel GNU... (recovery mode)" and press ENTER
> 5. After many boot messages, you will be presented with a blue screen
> 6. Use keyboard arrows to select "network" option and press ENTER (this
> will enable write capabilities to system volume)
> 7. In same menu/screen select "root" option and press ENTER
>
> Let's assume user accounts are called "wife" and "husband".
>
> Type in this, to reset "husband" password:
> passwd husband +ENTER
>
> After this, you can type in the "reboot" command and you will be
> entirely happy.
>
>
> El 13/10/19 a les 22:03, name at domain ha escrit:
>> Hello to all. I came here because none of the other forums could
helped me.
>> I am not using Trisquel anymore, although I consider the concept
>> interesting, but not practical, anyway...I have some photos in the
>> disk, that I would like to retrieve, particularly photos of my then
>> pregnant wife. It is somewhat important to us to get those unique
>> photos that we store on that trisquel computer.
>> The thing is I don't know any more, what was my password then... I have
>> two accounts on that machine, one mine, and the other of my wife. We
>> (me and my wife) could enter in my wife account, because we know the
>> password of her account, but the photos we need were stored in my
>> account, because I am the "linux" person in the house, she never cared
>> much using linux and her account.
>> I've seen some other forum, but that didn't help much because of one
>> simple reason, that irritates me a lot (sorrY):
>> When I click in the advance mode, the computer prompts right away to
>> enter username, and then password! That's exactly what I don't know! It
>> didn't make much sense... I am handed thigh in this situation!
>> With this set of informations could anyone help me? Please.
>> Thanks in advance and I will consider contribute more for real free
>> software like trisquel Linux.
>>
No, they are not. They the GRUB user (certainly "grub") and password... that you have certainly never known. Up to version 7, Trisquel had that password, which created far more problems (additional difficulty to recover a broken system) than it solved (basically none unless we are talking about a kiosk computer). Trisquel 8 finally abandoned that GRUB password. However, it must be still present on Trisquel 8 systems that were updated from Trisquel 7 (and whose /etc/default/grub has never been modified to get rid of the password).
Anyway, as chaosmonk directly replied, mounting the filesystem containing the desired files from a Live system is certainly the easiest solution. That is, assuming the partition is not encrypted (in which case, there would be no solution but to remember/brute-force the password: encryption works!).
mkl80, have you tried with "grub" username?
Lcerf, did Trisquel 7 propose some default password for this funny GRUB
behaviour?
El 17/10/19 a les 2:31, name at domain ha escrit:
> No, they are not. They the GRUB user (certainly "grub") and password...
> that you have certainly never known. Up to version 7, Trisquel had that
> password, which created far more problems (additional difficulty to
> recover a broken system) than it solved (basically none unless we are
> talking about a kiosk computer). Trisquel 8 finally abandoned that GRUB
> password. However, it must be still present on Trisquel 8 systems that
> were updated from Trisquel 7 (and whose /etc/default/grub has never been
> modified to get rid of the password).
>
> Anyway, as chaosmonk directly replied, mounting the filesystem
> containing the desired files from a Live system is certainly the easiest
> solution. That is, assuming the partition is not encrypted (in which
> case, there would be no solution but to remember/brute-force the
> password: encryption works!).
It seems that the /home partition is not encrypted, then there are numerous ways to retrieve the pictures. The easiest way may be logging on your better half's account and copy the Pictures folder of your account to her home directory (if there is enough disk space remaining on the /home partition):
sudo cp -r /home/worse_half/Pictures/* .
Replace "worse_half" with your account name.
my wife's account is not in sudoers... thanks anyway.
Thank you all!!!
I am in the process of resolving the problem. Actually I have installed tails linux in a usb and I am working on it...
I passed by only to say thanks, but if I have another question or if I (we actually, you included of course!) resolve the problem I will say something... see you!
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