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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/