Raspberrypi

Raspberry pi Password Reset

A short technical note outlining the basic approach and applicable steps on Raspberry pi Password Reset.

If one day you forget your Raspberry Pi password and cannot open it, you can reset the password as follows.

1: First, remove the SD card from the device and open it on a computer to view files.

2: Open the cmdline.txt file with a text editor and add init=/bin/sh at the end of the line

3: Insert the card back into the device (Raspberry Pi) and turn it on. You will see a terminal with the root user.

4: You can change the password with passwd pi or specify a different username.

5: If you get authentication token manipulation error error, just run this command mount -o remount, rw /. You can then repeat the password reset process.

6: Open the card again on the PC 2. Complete the process in step and save it.

7: You can insert the card into the device and turn it on with your new password.