WSL - Reset user password

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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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