Hi, I'm refreshing my with Elementary OS (Loki 0.4.1). It was installed few years ago as second system along with Windows and unused for quite a time. Now I've logged to the system (hopefully I remembered the password and to make updates I'm asked for authentication password and this one I don't remember (my login password doesn't work), I'm on an admin account however. Can someone advise on this please, how to reset this password so the updates can flow?
Is any error message coming up? normally root (admin) permission is needed to perform the updates, hence it should be asking for your admin password. To verify you're logged in as who you think you are you can open a terminal and type whoami (one word), this will output who you're currently logged in as. Code (Text): whoami If your logged in as someone other than root and can't remember your root password you can try using the sudo (Super User Do) command, if it's setup right it will ask you for your regular users password, but be able to execute admin commands. To upgrade from the terminal you would type the following commands. Code (Text): sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade The first is just checking for the latest updates and the second is doing the actual upgrade of all packages that have updates available. Finally if the sudo command is working for you, you can also use it to reset your root password as follows: Code (Text): sudo passwd Follow the prompts to set a new root password. Hope this helps.
