Thursday, 11 August 2016

HOW TO HACK INTO UBUNTU

PREREQUISITES:-

  1. The user name used in the computer 
  2. A basic knowledge of English (Yeah that's it!!!!) 
STEPS:

  1. Switch on the computer. Press either Shift or Escape to get to the grub shell.(It depends on the computer and varies as per the model and on the fact that if you have dual booted or not)
  2. Once you get the grub menu. Click on the Advanced Ubuntu Settings in the menu.
  3. In the Advanced Settings Menu you will see lot of options such as normal boot, recovery mode with various versions. Click on the recovery mode  option.
  4. After It reads all the File Systems for errors. It shows a menu where llot of options like resume noormal boot are displayed. Click on the one saying Root shell access.
  5. You will get a shell. Now type " ls /home"
  6. Type passwd username (substitute username with username in the computer)
  7. you will get a command to input your new UNIX password. Type it in. confirm the password.
  8. Once it says password changed successfully. type Reboot .
  9. Enter into the system using the new password.
ISSUES

If after typing the password you get a message saying password not authenicted just type in " mount -rw -o remount / "
and lo behold you get permissions to write in the drive. 

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