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Im locked out of my Raspberry

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     I just got my raspberry in the mail and now I am locked out I didnt save a password. Is their a way to reboot so the beginning>?

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  • There is a nondestructive method:

     

    Step one:

    When you boot your Pi, hold down the Shift key.

    At the Noobs screen, press E

    Click on the tab "cmdline.txt"

    There will be one or (more likely) two lines of text shown.

    At the end of that text (on the same line) add

    init=/bin/sh

    Click OK

     

    press Esc to boot the Pi.

     

    Step two:

    The Pi will appear to freeze after a while and the text will stop scrolling.

    Press the Enter key and you should get a prompt

    #

     

    Step three:

    type in

    passwd pi

    and enter your new password twice when prompted (the default password is raspberry).

     

    Step 4:

    type in

    sync

     

    Disconnect the power to the Pi and reboot.

     

    Do step one again but this time remove init=/bin/sh from the end of the line

    When you're done press Esc to boot the Pi with your new password.

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  • There is a nondestructive method:

     

    Step one:

    When you boot your Pi, hold down the Shift key.

    At the Noobs screen, press E

    Click on the tab "cmdline.txt"

    There will be one or (more likely) two lines of text shown.

    At the end of that text (on the same line) add

    init=/bin/sh

    Click OK

     

    press Esc to boot the Pi.

     

    Step two:

    The Pi will appear to freeze after a while and the text will stop scrolling.

    Press the Enter key and you should get a prompt

    #

     

    Step three:

    type in

    passwd pi

    and enter your new password twice when prompted (the default password is raspberry).

     

    Step 4:

    type in

    sync

     

    Disconnect the power to the Pi and reboot.

     

    Do step one again but this time remove init=/bin/sh from the end of the line

    When you're done press Esc to boot the Pi with your new password.

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