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I have an RPi that I have forgotten the password to. I have history on the ubuntu command line on my PC of ssh logins and I was hoping there would be a way to get text history entered into to try to find my password. If not is there a way to recover an RPi password? I am running Ubuntu Server (not Raspbian) and was unable to access GRUB.


Earlier I was using the history command but that only shows the ssh commands and not the details entered in.


Any help would be massively appreciated!


EDIT - Some solutions don't work because they are for the Raspberry Pi 3B and below and I have a Raspberry Pi 4B


EDIT - I have found a solution thanks to a friend of mine, I will put an answer below. Thanks to everyone who helped me :)


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To solve this issue I took the SD card out of the pi and opened it in another linux machine.


In the terminal I used the command below to remove the "x" from the root user line


sudo nano /mnt/sdcard/etc/passwd

(You may need to mount the SD card or USB stick reading the SD card)


Then I was able to put the SD card back into the pi and log in to the root user without typing a password.


Finally I could create a new password using the passwd command.


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