Forgotten Password Mint 11

[VALinewbie]

I'm sure this has been answered here a dozen times, and I'm sure you will point me to the interwebs, unfortunately I have looked and tried and tried, with no avail. I attempted to go the easy way, going through the grub, recovery mode, drop root shell, from there it told me i needed a password for maintnance... Didn't have that so went to the harder way init=/bin/bash/ and everytime i do that the kernal panics because it can't sync... SOMEONE PLEASE HELP! I'm at my wits end I can't get into my computer at all at this point. Maybe i'm doing something wrong and easy fix, or maybe i'm going at it the wrong way.

[Screwdriver0815]

so from what I understood: you forgot your userpassword?

then you go into the GRUB recovery mode. In there you are root (the super-user). In the terminal you just type

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passwd username newpassword

this means: you type "passwd" as it is written, but without the quotation marks, then your username (the name you use to log into your system) and "newpassword" means the new password, which you want to use in the future.
Then you hit enter and then you type

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init 6

followed by hitting enter again. This reboots the system and you should be able to use the new password which you gave yourself.

further read: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/resetpassword

[VALinewbie]

The issue with that part is that it asks for a root password for maintnance or press ctrl+d. I don't know that password, so I can't go about the easyway that psychocats guides your through.

[Screwdriver0815]

then you need to boot into a Live CD and reset the root password

try this

http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-res ... -password/

under "if you can´t use Grub"

[laser_dick]

solves "Authentication Token Manipulation Error" and root authentication in grub recovery menu.
press and hold shift key during boot will get to boot menu
choose "e" to edit, replace "ro quiet splash" with "single init=/bin/bash"
( or "rw init=/bin/bash" you can skip "mount -o remount, rw /")
press "ctrl+X"
at root "#" command prompt type "mount -o remount, rw /"
then type "passwd"
This will prompt you for "root" user password enter it twice, upon confirmation reboot
or if you know user change it here also
login as user "root" then goto terminal and change user password

this works in Mint 12