Forgotten password "to perform administrative tasks".

[timbo12]

Thanks for responding. I tried your suggestion and got as far as the recovery screen. I tabbed down to root, and hit Enter as instructed, but it bought up the instruction "give root password for maintenance (or type Control-D to continue)". I could not get past that point. Control-D just took me back to the same screen, and I could then re-chose from the same options.