Recover Forgotten Ubuntu Password without reinstalling

If you forgot you password for your ubuntu system you can recover using the following steps Turn your computer on. Press ESC at the grub prompt. Press e for edit. Highlight the line that begins kernel ………, press e Go to the very end of the line, add rw init=/bin/bash press enter, then press b to boot your system. Your system...

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How to install OpenSSH in Ubuntu to connect to another computer

OpenSSH encrypts all traffic including passwords to effectively eliminate connection hijacking or eavesdropping on the traffic. SSH was designed as a replacement for Telnet,rlogin and rsh, which send information, notably passwords in plaintext leaving them open for interception. OpenSSH provides secure tunneling capabilities and...

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Reclaim Disk Space

Filling a partition to 100% can have an unpleasant effect on your system. When services and other programs cannot write to their log files, or cannot save data in /var, you could be in trouble. These programs won't be able to save their data, and typically quit out (or, in some extreme cases, crash dramatically!). To avoid this,...

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