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1. booting ubuntu
2. choose ubuntu advanced mode
3. from the boot menu, select recovery mode, which is usually the second boot option.
4. In this case, you want the Drop to root shell prompt
5. In recent versions of Ubuntu, the filesystem is mounted as read-only, so you need to enter the follow command to get it to remount as read-write, which will allow you to make changes:
mount -rw -o remount /
6. whoami
7. passwd username
<masukan password 2x>
8. exit
9. resume
10. ok
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