Как сбросить пароль ubuntu в windows

WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) is a handy tool for people who want to enjoy the power of Linux command line from the comfort of Windows.

When you install Linux using WSL on Windows, you are asked to create a username and password. This user is automatically logged on when you start Linux on WSL.

Now, the problem is that if you haven’t used it for some time, you may forget the account password of WSL. And this will become a problem if you have to use a command with sudo because here you’ll need to enter the password.

Don’t worry. You can easily reset it.

Reset forgotten password for Ubuntu or any other Linux distribution on WSL

To reset the Linux password in WSL, you have to:

Switch the default user to root
Reset the password for the normal user
Switch back the default user to the normal user

Let me show you the steps in detail and with screenshots. If you want a video, you can watch that as well.

Step 1: Switch to root as default user

It will be wise to note down your account’s normal/regular username. As you can see, my regular account’s username is abhishek.

Note down the account username

The root user in WSL is unlocked and doesn’t have a password set. This means that you can switch to the root user and then use the power of root to reset the password.

Since you don’t remember the account password, switching to the root user is done by changing the configuration of your Linux WSL application and make it use root user by default.

This is done through Windows Command Prompt and you’ll need to know which command you need to run for your Linux distribution.

This information is usually provided in the description of the distribution app in the Windows Store. This is from where you had downloaded your distribution in the first place.

Know the command to run for your distribution app

From the Windows menu, start the command prompt:

Start Command Prompt

In here, use your distribution’s command in this fashion. If you were using the Ubuntu app from Windows store, the command would be:

ubuntu config --default-user root

In the screenshot, I am using Ubuntu 20.04 app from the Windows store. So, I have used ubuntu2004 command.

Set root as default user in Linux app’s configuration

To save you the trouble, I am listing some distributions and their respective commands in this table:

Distribution App	Windows Command
Ubuntu	ubuntu config –default-user root
Ubuntu 20.04	ubuntu2004 config –default-user root
Ubuntu 18.04	ubuntu1804 config –default-user root
Debian	debian config –default-user root
Kali Linux	kali config –default-user root

Step 2: Reset the password for the account

Now, if you start the Linux distribution app, you should be logged in as root. You can reset the password for the normal user account.

Do you remember the username in WSL? If not, you can always check the contents of the /home directory. When you have the username, use this command:

passwd username

It will ask you to enter a new password. When you type here, nothing will be displayed on the screen. That’s normal. Just type the new password and hit enter. You’ll have to retype the new password to confirm and once again, nothing will be displayed on the screen while you type the password.

Reset the password for the regular user

Congratulations. The password for the user account has been reset. But you are done just yet. The default user is still root. You should change it back to your regular account user, otherwise, it will keep on logging in as the root user.

Step 3: Set regular user as default again

You’ll need the regular account username that you used with the passwd command in the previous step.

Start the Windows command prompt once again. Use your distribution’s command in the similar manner you did in step 1. However, this time, replace root with the regular user.

ubuntu config --default-user username

Set regular user as default user

Now when you start your Linux distribution app in WSL, you’ll be logged in as a regular user. You have reset the password fresh and can use it to run commands with sudo.

If you forgot the password again in the future, you know the steps to reset it.

If resetting WSL password is this easy, is this not a security risk?

Not really. You need physical access to the computer and access to the Windows account. If someone already has this much access, they can do much more than just change the Linux password in WSL.

Were you able to reset WSL password?

I gave you the commands and explained the steps. I hope this was helpful to you and you were able to reset the password of your Linux distribution in WSL.

If you are still facing issues or if you have a question on this topic, please feel free to ask in the comment section.

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I have installed Linux Bash on Windows 10 (available from Microsoft), but I’ve forgotten my password.

I’ve searched for a solution but I only find suggestions that involve doing something before the system boots, like accessing recovery mode, but that will not work in this case as this Ubuntu is just an application within a Windows system and doesn’t have its own boot process.

How can I reset my password?

Zanna♦

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asked May 13, 2016 at 22:19

Maheedhar K VMaheedhar K V

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Run bash and make a note of your Linux username (this need not match your Windows username), see How can I find out my user name?
Close Bash on Ubuntu if it is running (or the next command will fail).
In Windows admin command prompt (Super+X, A) change the default user to root:
```
ubuntu config --default-user root
```

If you are using Ubuntu 18.04 in WSL, the command has changed to ubuntu1804 , so

ubuntu1804 config --default-user root

Now Bash on Ubuntu on Windows logs you in as root without asking password
Use passwd command in Bash to change the user password (the user whose password you want to reset):
```
passwd your_username
```
Change the default user back to your normal user in Windows command prompt
```
ubuntu config --default-user  your_username
```

If you are using Ubuntu 18.04 in WSL, the command has changed to ubuntu1804 , so

ubuntu1804 config --default-user your_username

Watch Full Video to Recover your password Windows Subsystem Linux
https://youtu.be/dTR232yvDCE

Note 1: The subsystem used in the video is not Ubuntu, but Kali Linux. Hence the difference in the command.

Note 2: If you are still using the original Ubuntu subsystem that came with the Anniversary Update, use the command lxrun. Upgrade to the subsystem version distributed via Microsoft Store is recommended.)

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answered Aug 5, 2016 at 10:02

Microsoft has a good help page on this: WSL User documentation.

In Windows PowerShell (Super+X, i) you can log in to the Ubuntu root account with

wsl --user root

Then change the password as you usually would, i.e. for the current user (which is root) with

passwd

or for another user with

passwd username

which interactively asks you for a new password (twice). Windows admin privileges are not required.

If you have more than one distribution installed in WSL, then you can list the names of the installed distributions with

wsl -l

and then use the name of the distribution to specify into which distribution you want to log in to, for example to log into Ubuntu 20.04:

wsl -d Ubuntu-20.04 --user root

answered Sep 5, 2019 at 9:58

NobodyNobody

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Important This answer is (a) for the older WSL1 only, (b) is outdated as it references paths that are no longer used by WSL1, even, and (c) most importantly, can cause filesystem corruption, per Microsoft. Please refer to other answers here for proper methods of changing the password.

The above did not work. Even after changing default user, Bash always opened with my user.

So instead I did this, which worked:

Edit this file (in notepad or notepad++):
```
 %localappdata%\lxss\rootfs\etc\shadow
```
Find your normal user, for example:
```
 user1:$jsdjksadgfhsdf.saflsdf.sadf.safd:17299:0:99999:7:::
```

and simply remove the hash part (below part)

    $jsdjksadgfhsdf.saflsdf.sadf.safd

you will see a different hash — I hope so it should look like:

    user1::17299:0:99999:7:::

Save the file
Start Bash again with root privileges and set your password
```
  sudo bash
  passwd <your-user-name> 
```

You can now set a new password without having to enter the previous one.

NotTheDr01ds

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answered May 13, 2017 at 15:59

Edit This no longer works if you have a store-installed distribution of WSL.

To add to Tmu’s answer, here’s a Powershell script (gist) that automates the process (including automatically detecting the current default username)

# Resets the password for the default LXSS / WSL bash user
$lxssUsername = (Get-ItemProperty HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Lxss).DefaultUsername
lxrun /setdefaultuser root
bash -c "passwd $lxssUsername"
lxrun /setdefaultuser $lxssUsername

answered Jun 6, 2017 at 23:52

I needed to reset my password also in my Windows 10, I has WLS 1

1- Check your linux/ubuntu name, listing the folder:

%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps

In my case I found Ubuntu1604.exe, so I will use ubuntu1604 like name for the next step.
$list files in: %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps$

2- Open CMD with administrator privilegies and run (you will get nothing in return):

ubuntu1604 config --default-user root

3- Start your WSL, check that you get root privilegues or run whoami (you need to be root) and change your password with:

passwd [your-linux-username]

4- Close your WSL and get back to the CMD Window and set back your default linux username:

ubuntu1604 config --default-user [your-linux-username]

5- Start your WSL/Ubuntu/AnotherLinux again, check and enjoy.

answered Oct 27, 2019 at 17:37

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The other answers here, while mostly valid, are vastly overcomplicated. To change your user password in any WSL distribution, simply:

From inside Ubuntu (or another distribution):

wsl.exe \~ -u root -d $WSL_DISTRO_NAME -e passwd $USER

^{*_{Requires WSL Interop to be enabled.}}

Or from PowerShell or CMD (as a regular, non-admin user):

wsl ~ -u root -e passwd <username>
# Add the -d <distro_name> if not using the default distro

^{*_{Does not require WSL Interop.}}

answered Dec 7, 2022 at 20:18

NotTheDr01dsNotTheDr01ds

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For those of you who lost the root password, what worked for me, was updating to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS via the Windows Store. Note, the windows store has two distinct options:

Ubuntu
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Pick this one)

To check your current version, run the following as any user:

At command prompt, enter:

cat /etc/*release

You should see a line in the output that says:

DISTRIB_RELEASE=16.01

If you see that, then definitely update to 18.04, and it will prompt you to create new UNIX credentials.

answered Mar 15, 2019 at 1:24

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I have Bash Ubuntu on Windows 10. This is enabled by turning on the Developer mode feature so the normal non-programmer would likely not need this. I need to reset the password. I must have typed it wrong (twice, somehow) when I first set it up. How can I do that?

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asked Oct 28, 2016 at 1:35

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This has been answered HERE

Copying from their answer:

In Windows command prompt change the default user to root:

lxrun /setdefaultuser root
Now Bash on Ubuntu on Windows logs you in as root without asking password
Use passwd command in Bash to change the user password:

passwd your_username
Change the default user back to your normal user in Windows command prompt

lxrun /setdefaultuser your_username

answered Oct 28, 2016 at 1:42

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That’s it! Thanks

Oct 29, 2016 at 12:25
C:\Windows\system32>lxrun /setdefaultuser root Warning: lxrun.exe is only used to configure the legacy Windows Subsystem for Linux distribution. Distributions can be installed by visiting the Microsoft Store: aka.ms/wslstore Error: 0x80070002 New is: ubuntu1804, but I can’t figure out the commands

Nov 19, 2018 at 13:16
@JaroslavŠtreit "%localappdata%\Microsoft\WindowsApps\ubuntu1804.exe" config --default-user root should do the trick

Dec 11, 2018 at 16:37

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Если вы забыли пароль своей учетной записи в дистрибутиве WSL Linux и не можете войти в его консоль, то эта статья определенно будет вам полезна. Мы увидим, как сбросить пароль учетной записи в WSL Linux без использования сторонних инструментов.

Возможность запускать Linux изначально в Windows 10 предоставляется функция WSL. WSL означает подсистему Windows для Linux, которая изначально была ограничена только Ubuntu. Современные версии WSL позволяют устанавливать и запускать несколько дистрибутивов Linux из Microsoft Store.

После включения WSL вы можете устанавливать различные версии Linux из Магазина. Вы можете использовать следующие ссылки:

Ubuntu
openSUSE Leap
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Kali Linux для WSL
Debian GNU/Linux

и другие.

Когда вы впервые запускаете дистрибутив WSL, он открывает окно консоли с индикатором выполнения. Через некоторое время вам будет предложено ввести новое имя учетной записи пользователя и пароль. Эта учетная запись будет вашей учетной записью WSL по умолчанию, которая будет использоваться для автоматического входа при каждом запуске текущего дистрибутива. Кроме того, он будет включен в группу sudo, чтобы позволить ему запускать команды с повышенными привилегиями (как root).

Каждый дистрибутив Linux, работающий в подсистеме Windows для Linux, имеет своего собственного пользователя Linux. учетные записи и пароли. Вам придется настраивать учетную запись пользователя Linux каждый раз, когда вы добавляете дистрибутив, переустанавливаете или сбрасываете. Учетные записи пользователей Linux не только независимы для каждого дистрибутива, они также не зависят от вашей учетной записи пользователя Windows.

Чтобы сбросить пароль для WSL Linux Distro в Windows 10,

Измените имя пользователя по умолчанию для вашего дистрибутива WSL на root. Используйте следующую команду: ubuntu config --default-user root . Для других дистрибутивов см. Примечание ниже.
Запустите Linux распространение, например введите ubuntu или wsl , если вы работаете с дистрибутивом WSL по умолчанию.
Сбросьте пароль с помощью команды passwd : passwd . Замените часть фактическим именем пользователя, для которого вы хотите сбросить пароль, например #passwd winaero .
Выйдите из сеанса WSL и установите пользователь по умолчанию дистрибутива WSL обратно в свою учетную запись пользователя, например ubuntu config --default-user winaero .

Примечание. Используйте следующие команды, чтобы изменить своего пользователя по умолчанию на root в дистрибутиве WSL. Заменив ‘root’ другим имя учетной записи пользователя, вы установите ее в качестве учетной записи пользователя по умолчанию для дистрибутива.

Ubuntu: ubuntu config --default-user root
openSUSE Leap 42: openSUSE-42 config --default-user root
SUSE Linux: SLES-12 config --default-user root
Debian: debian config --default-user root
Kali Linux: kali config --default-user root

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Reset forgotten password for Ubuntu or any other Linux distribution on WSL

Step 1: Switch to root as default user

Step 2: Reset the password for the account

Step 3: Set regular user as default again

If resetting WSL password is this easy, is this not a security risk?

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