Lost your Raspberry Pi Password?

I dug out my old Raspberry Pi "WarPi" gear today, as it was high time for a refresh. And of course, then it hit me... I forgot the password. What to do? I have hours into this device building Kismet (fixing a double conversion issue), hooking up the GPS, etc.

Well never fear - my buddy Chuck helped me through it. It's a snap:

1. Pull the SD card
2. Mount it somewhere else (I use a Mac, but you can mount it on Windows or Linux or what have you)
3. Open the "cmdline.txt" file
4. Add "init=/bin/sh" to the end of the FIRST line. 
5. Save "cmdline.txt" again, unmount/eject the SD card and reboot the Pi
6. When you get to the command prompt, type "mount -rw -o remount /"
7. Next, type passwd pi and reset your password
8. Next, type sync
9. Then exec /sbin/init
10. Finally, reboot (you can use sudo halt)

Now log in as usual.