Lost Password in an Unraid Ubuntu VM: How to reset it

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Right click the VM on the 'VMS' tab on the Unraid web gui.


Select 'VNC Remote'.

Leave the VNC window open.

Now start hitting the left shift key on right click 'Restart' on the same menu above. This will get you to the grub bootloader.


Then, enter recovery mode to get to a Root prompt via these directions.

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RecoveryMode



Now, you should be able to type 'passwd <username> ' and reset the password.

now type 'exit' and select 'resume' from the menu.

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