How to reset password from VMware-work station ?

Below is your login screen and you forgot your password and would like to reset ? how can you do that ?

From below screen shot ,Right lower corner side you can see power option . when you click on power button  , you will get 2 options called restart and shutdown . 

click on Restart button as shown above . Once you click on restar server will  reboot. you can see in below screen .

Once you get the below boot prompt  press any key in your keyboard .

Once you press any key you get the below screen , Then after press key 'e'.  e is for edit .

Then you will get below screen .

Then scroll down to kernel with down arrow key in your key board . Then you can see below screen .

After that press key 'e' to edit and you will get below screen .

Then type word called "single " as below screen . simply enter space key and type single .

Then hit enter key . You will get below screen .After you get below screen  enter key 'b'. b for boot .

After you could see in below screen server is rebooting now .

Now you can see in below screen server went to single user mode .

Now you can change your password as shown in below screen . In below screen i changed password for root and linuxtechnotes  users .

Then run command called reboot  to boot the server .once its bootsup you will get login screen as first screen in this article.

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note :-   If   giving option as single didnt go to single user mode then  give try adding option   as init=/bin/bash instaed  single   to get command shell

Please do comment below for any queries , we will get back to you soon .