RECOVERING ROOT PASSWORD IN LINUX

To Recover the root password in Redhat7, You can follow below steps to recover it.

1. Restart the system

2. Interrupt the boot loader countdown by pressing esc key and press E

3. Move the cursor to the linux16 entry line that needs to be booted, by pressing end key move the   cursor to end of line 

                                                    rd.break
                                                    ctrl + X 

4. Remount the /sysroot

                                                 mount -oremount,rw /sysroot

                                                 chroot /sysroot

 

 

5. Change the root password

                                              passwd root

6. Unlabel the file in /etc/shadow

                                            touch /.autorelabel 

 7. Restart the system

     

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