Lockout of Kali after passwd change and can not reset it

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What have you tried: I googled how to reset passwd and followed the modifications to GRUB (change ro to rw and init= /bin/bash) however when I tried to get into bash shell from the changes (control X) immediately started booting the operating system again and then hung. It looks like it should have been Control C instead but that puts me into what looks like a shell but when I type “passwd” it says that command not found. Sooo what did I do wrong.

Note: I am not a novice user however it has been a while since I had a linux computer so I might be a bit rusty… any help at all will be appreciated

thanks
JD

What is the error: Passwd command not found

What device is this on: Hp laptop with AMD processor 16gb ram

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init= /bin/bash

If you left that space in, it won’t work anyway…

init=/bin/bash

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