recover kali linux password ; my kali linux box not being powered on for sometime, I wrote the password on a piece of paper , needless to say, I could not find it

 recover kali linux password ; my kali linux box not being powered on for sometime, I wrote the password on a piece of paper , needless to say, I could not find it

not so hard

• First boot Kali Linux GRUB menu.
• Now in GRUB menu, select "Kali GNU/Linux" and press "e".
• Then in the next screen find a line starting with "linux".
• There replace "ro" with "rw" and replace "quiet" with "init=/bin/bash".
• press F10
• Now type command mount in the shell.
• cat /bin/passwd  ; to find my username
• And then type command passwd user_name to reset password.
• Now reboot with exec /sbin/init.
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https://superuser.com/questions/1574642/just-installed-kali-linux-forgot-username-i-entered-in-installation