Voir la source de WSL - Reset user password

= Introduction =

If you loose or forget your basic account in WSL, this article describes how to reset it quickly.

= Reset the password =

== Turn the defaut user to root ==

* Open a CMD prompt.
* Call your WSL distribution executable with appropriate parameters:

 debian.exe config --default-user root

== Launch a new WSL instance and reset the password ==

* your new instance should start with user root.
* type:

 passwd <your_username>

* set the password to a value you will store somewhere.

== Set the default user to it's original value ==

 debian.exe config --default-user <your_username>

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