Password not recognised. Cannot log in!!

[Tango]

I am running Ultimate Edition 1.9, 64 bit. I noticed over the last few weeks that it took a while for my password to log in to be recognised. I tried today and the message was that I used the wrong password. Has anybody else experienced something like this? (The password was definitely right!)
How can I set a new password without logging in or is there any other way to fix this?
Thank you

[Tango]

Hi strider 5236
Thank you heaps. Worked like a dream!

[DaddyX3]

Hey Tango,
This might help ya.

If you forgot your password for your system, you can recover using the following steps:

1. Turn your computer on.
2. Press ESC at the grub prompt.
3. Press e for edit.
4. Highlight the line that begins kernel ………, press e
5. Go to the very end of the line, add rw init=/bin/bash
6. press enter, then press b to boot your system.
7. Your system will boot up to a passwordless root shell. Type in passwd username
8. Set your password.
9. Type in reboot

Hope this helps, and good luck.

Hey strider, this is a really good candidate for the How-To section. Everybody eventually will run into this prob. or know somebody that has.

[deate]

I agree on the "how-to", but am more curious as to why his password slowly went away, and if this fix will last???