This is a common question asked by people especially if they didn’t boot their computer (with Linux) for a while. Here I am giving a way on how to reset root password from a Linux system.
Please note that you can not perform this remotely. You must be physically at the computer.
- reboot the system
- When you first start the computer, the GRUB screen appears. Select Linux that you want to boot into, but press the ‘e’ key instead of ‘Enter’ (to stop the grub).
- Hit ‘e’ again and you will go to different screen
- Select ‘kernel’ as choice, and hit ‘e’ on your key board.
- Type ‘single’ (or 1 in some versions) to enter ‘single user’ mode and then enter ‘b’ to boot. ( now your system is in single user mode as root)
- Now you can change the root password by using ‘passwd’ command
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