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I've gotta reinstall Debian because I can't remember my goddamn password..
If it's your user or root's password and you have physical access, you can boot in rescue and change passwords from there
Thanks, ill try that! I've been putting it off but I suspected there was some kind of workaround
I haven't done this in a while, but I think that's the correct procedure: https://utho.com/docs/linux/debian/how-to-reset-debian-root-password/