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    This article discusses how to recover a lost root password in CentOS. It provides step-by-step instructions, including rebooting the system, interrupting the boot loader, editing the kernel command line to add "rd.break", mounting the file system as read-write, changing to a chroot jail, setting a new root password, and rebooting. Following these steps will allow you to reset the root password when it is lost.

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    This article discusses how to recover a lost root password in CentOS. It provides step-by-step instructions, including rebooting the system, interrupting the boot loader, editing the kernel command line to add "rd.break", mounting the file system as read-write, changing to a chroot jail, setting a new root password, and rebooting. Following these steps will allow you to reset the root password when it is lost.

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    This article discusses how to recover a lost root password in CentOS. It provides step-by-step instructions, including rebooting the system, interrupting the boot loader, editing the kernel command line to add "rd.break", mounting the file system as read-write, changing to a chroot jail, setting a new root password, and rebooting. Following these steps will allow you to reset the root password when it is lost.

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    This article discusses how to recover a lost root password in CentOS. It provides step-by-step instructions, including rebooting the system, interrupting the boot loader, editing the kernel command line to add "rd.break", mounting the file system as read-write, changing to a chroot jail, setting a new root password, and rebooting. Following these steps will allow you to reset the root password when it is lost.

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    FEBRUARY 5, 2020 / #LINUX

    How to recover your lost


    root password in CentOS
    Thanoshan MV

    In Linux, when you ADVERTISEMENT

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    forget your account


    password, you can
    easily reset it using a
    root account. But
    when you forget your
    root account
    password, then you're
    in a bad situation.

    You can’t reset your root


    account password using a
    regular user account as a
    user account can't perform
    such tasks in general.

    In this article we’ll be


    covering how to recover
    your CentOS root
    password. So let's see how
    to do it.

    How to recover
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    your root
    password -
    step-by-step
    In CentOS, it’s possible to
    have the scripts that run
    from the initramfs debug
    the shell at certain points,
    provide a root shell, and
    continue when that shell
    exists.

    While this is mostly meant


    for debugging, it can also be
    used to recover a lost root
    password.

    Follow these steps to


    recover your lost root
    password.

    First, reboot the system.

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    CentOSLinux(3.10.0-957.e17.x86_64)?(Core)
    CentOSLinux(0-rescue-05a8e80b5d95487a9c5a0c600a1cc1f1)7(Core)

    Interrupt the boot loader


    countdown by pressing any
    key.
    Urethetandediketstschatedtheselection
    toedittheselecteditem,or'c'foracommandprompt.
    Move the cursor to the
    entry that needs to be
    booted.

    Press “e” to select that


    entry. After selecting that
    entry, the below kernel
    commands will appear.

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    In the kernel command line,


    move the cursor to the line
    that starts with linux16.

    Press the “End” key to


    move the cursor to the end
    of it. Type “rd.break” (This
    will break just before
    control is handed from the
    initramfs to the actual

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    system).

    Then press “Ctrl+x” to save ADVERTISEMENT

    those changes. The


    Initramfs debug shell will
    appear.

    Next, we have to provide


    read and write permissions
    to /sysroot by typing the

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    below command:

    mount -o remount,rw /sysroot/

    Now switch into chroot jail.

    chroot /sysroot

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    In here, /sysroot is treated


    as the root of the file
    system tree.

    Next you'll set a new root


    password.

    passwd root

    And relabel the files.

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    touch /.autorelabel

    Finally, type “exit” twice.

    The first one will exit from


    the chroot jail.

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    The next one will exit from


    the initramfs debug shell
    and reboots the system.

    Now you can login as root


    with your updated
    password.

    Please feel free to let me


    ADVERTISEMENT
    know if you have any
    questions. You can contact
    and connect with me on
    Twitter.

    Thank you for reading.

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