I have been using WSL for some time now. Having quick and easy access to a nix distribution is so handy in many ways. Not having to worry about managing VMs in a hypervisor makes the whole experience so much nicer. Today I switched back to a Ubuntu install I hadn’t used from quite a while and the first thing was to run sum updates but I had forgotten the password I had set.

This post covers the simple process to perform a password recovery of a WSL install.