This didn't work for me - upon remounting, passwd behaves the same way 
and even trying to shutdown, I get

"shutdown: Unable to send message: Connection refused"

I guess more searching is needed to find out how I can change my password.

Raymond Norton wrote:
> Elvedin Trnjanin wrote:
>   
>> I've tried this on my laptop after forgetting all of my passwords and 
>> it did drop me to a root shell. When I tried to do a 'passwd' to 
>> change mine, it only allowed me to type in one character before 
>> accepting it as an entry. Look out for that issue so you don't 
>> overwrite the password to an account you do know the password to.
>>
>> If you have better luck, please report back.
>>     
>
> I was adding "single" to the end of the line, but it did not work.
>
> It did work for me with just "init=/bin/bash", and remounting the file 
> system rw
>
> mount -o remount,rw /
>
>
>
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