Forgotten Sky Password

[Lucrecio Houle]

Manymonths back I felt there might be a security breach and as such I changed my master password. I wrote it down, sadly that did not save me as I no longer remember any other PW with BW other than the one I created my account with: @gmail.com.

Regarding self-recovery there are two options, if you have enabled them, that will help. First, if you designated an emergency contact with takeover privileges, they can take over your account and create a new password. Second, if you have created a recent export (backup) of your vault contents, it is possible to create a brand new account and restore your vault data from the backup (note that your password history, items in the trash bin, file attachments, and are not backed up and will be lost).

@Maggi_Mentis This is a public website that anybody can read. Therefore, I would recommend that you edit your post a.s.a.p. to remove the mention of your gmail account. Disclosing that information here will not help any of us solve your problem (we are just users of Bitwarden who provide assistance to other users), but having such personal information openly published on the World Wide Web has the potential to cause you further grief.

However, if your chosen password was not very strong, then it may be possible for you (or for someone with the required technical expertise) to break in to your Bitwarden vault. On the other hand, if you chose a strong master password (randomly generated, with sufficient length), as you should have, then there really is no hope other than finding that piece of paper.

Sorry to read through these threads. If you think about it; I and others would not use a password manager where a lost master password was a hurdle that could easily be bypassed. I hope others reading along here make damn sure they make vault backups and double check their master password is stored somewhere safe.

An accurate and up-to-date email address, and/or phone number ensure you never lose access to your X account. There are a few ways to change your password, and keeping this information up to date simplifies resetting your account or password.

Note: Resetting your password will log you out of all your active X sessions. Additionally, password reset via text message isn't available to accounts that are enrolled in login verification. You can only reset your password through email.

If you frequently receive password reset messages that you did not request, it may be a good idea to turn on the Password reset protection in your account settings and set up two-factor authentication.

By default the first user's account is an administrative account, so if the UI is prompting you for a password it's probably that person's user password. If the user doesn't remember their password you need to reset it. To do this you need to boot into recovery mode (see also offical docs: RecoveryMode).

Boot up the machine, and after the BIOS screen, hold down the left Shift key (note that for UEFI BIOS you might need press ESC instead). You will then be prompted by a menu that looks something like this:

There is concern about this being a security vulnerability. It is not. You need to have physical access to the machine to do this. If someone has physical access to your PC, they could do far worse than change a password. When it comes to physical access, the battle for security is lost. Be wary of who you let on your PC.

Even setting a root password will not be successful, as one can simply boot with init being /bin/sh and have full root access. Again, given physical access, anyone with computer knowledge can do ANYTHING to your computer.

If you have a dual-boot (Ubuntu is installed next to Windows, another Linux operating system, or Mac OS X; and you choose at boot time which operating system to boot into), the boot menu should appear without the need to hold down the shift key.

After you select recovery mode and wait for all the boot-up processes to finish, you'll be presented with a few options. In this case, you want the Drop to root shell prompt option so press the ᛎ Down arrow to get to that option, and then press Enter to select it.

You'll then be prompted for a new password. When you type the password you will get no visual response acknowledging your typing. Your password is still being accepted. Just type the password and hit Enter when you're done. You'll be prompted to retype the password. Do so and hit Enter again.

If recovery mode is disabled, the method I would use is booting to a Live CD or USB. It could be the media you installed from or just another Ubuntu ISO you've downloaded and burnt. The process is fairly simple.

If you have a single-boot (Ubuntu is the only operating system on your computer), to get the boot menu to show, you have to hold down the Shift key during bootup. From the boot menu, select recovery mode, which is usually the second boot option. After you select recovery mode and wait for all the boot-up processes to finish, you'll be presented with a few options. In this case, you want the Drop to root shell prompt option so press the Down arrow to get to that option, and then press Enter to select it.

Then I got the Recovery Menu - but when I chose Drop to Root Shell Prompt (bottom item) I was root but couldn't reset the password - because the disks were Read Only. Type exitand get back to the Recovery Menu

Then again to Drop to Root Shell Prompt and I'm root and can write - sopasswd usernamehad me enter the desired password twice - then exit to go back to Recovery MenuResume normal bootand everything worked fine with my new password! I'm the only account on this box, and my password works with sudo so I apparently have Administrative Privileges.

I was having the same problem with my password and I tried everyone's suggestions but none worked for me. So I tried some of my own and this is what worked for me... "Keep in mind I can NOT explain why it worked, all I know is it worked...

Note: (Here is the part I can't explain. After trying everything, and nothing working, I finally just started trying all the options here one at a time. When I tried the "grub Update grub boot loader" and then followed the rest of the steps all was well and password was reset.)

The password is the second group of characters after YOUR_USERNAME, between the two colons. You can replace this with a other password, for example, you could replace the existing password string (truncated for clarity):

If you do that however and happened to have used an encrypted /home directory for that username you are likely not to gain access to the files in your /home directory (and if you do then Ubuntu should be uninstalled...)

For me, on Ubuntu 16.04 VM installed in VirtualBox, when I boot into (with shift held before booting the VM) the root prompt, I always get Give root password for maintenance (or type Control-D to continue), finally I hit e at the GRUB menu with the newest recovery kernel selected in Advanced Options for Ubuntu

I am using version 4.5.4 on my iPhone XR with Face ID. The feature is turned on and working fine but I have forgotten my password so right now I am able to log on but not change my password. I've tried to do a back of the data but to retrieve the data requires the password and I don't have it. There is no print option so the only solution I can see is to delete the data and start over or write everything down by hand and re-enter it by hand. I'm also frozen out of my new iPad because, even though it has face detect that feature was not set up because I don't have the damn password. I understand that this issue is much easier to deal with in version 5, but there is no way to migrate to that platform without the password. And round and round it goes... Guess I'll just write everything down and then switch platforms to someone more user friendly.

Unfortunately, or fortunately, there is no way to reset your mSecure 4 login password. However, since you still have access to mSecure 4 on your device thanks to Touch ID, you can fix this issue by either syncing your mSecure 4 information to another device that has mSecure 3 or 4 or by simply setting up Dropbox syncing in mSecure 4, changing the default cloud sync password, reinstalling mSecure 4 on your device, and setting up Dropbox syncing again in mSecure 4 after you create a new login password. This all might sound complicated, but it should be relatively easy and quick.

After you set up Dropbox syncing in mSecure 4, make sure to change the cloud sync password. The cloud sync password is set up using your mSecure 4 login password. However, you can always change it to something else.

Thank you for contacting us. As long as you have access to all your information on either your iPad, iPhone or both, you will have no problems upgrading. What you will need to do is simply install mSecure 5 on your main iOS device, create an account and perform the upgrade. After the upgrade is complete, you can install mSecure 5 on your other devices, including your Mac, and sign in to the account. After you do that, your data should sync in to the other devices.

I haven't tried this yet. Does it matter which device I install the upgrade on first? I use my iMac as the 'main device', but that's the one I've lost the password to. Am I OK to install it on that iMac, then sync the data from my iPad and iPhone to the iMac? I fear overwriting the data on my iPad and iPhone with blank data from the upgrade on the iMac. [I hope I explained that well, it's complicated ...]

In the context you find yourself in, it's still the best route to install mSecure 5 and set up the new account on one of your iOS devices. I believe both your iPhone and iPad have all of your information available in their mSecure apps, so it won't matter which device you use. After you create the account and your data is transferred over to mSecure 5, signing in to your account on other devices will not overwrite the data currently stored in the account. When you sign in to the account, if the database is empty, it looks to see if there is data to sync in and then it does so. The process will work like this:

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