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How to recover the root password on Redhat Fedora and CentOS

By: Jerry Slagger
Date Added : June 12, 2009 Views : 4082




If you have lost or forgotten the root password for Redhat, Fedora, or CentOS you can recover by booting the booting the linux system into single-user mode and then reset the root password. Note that if this is a VPS (Virtual Private Server), you can contact your host provider and they can reset it for you without having the reboot the server.

How to reset the root password:


1. Reboot the system.
 
2. When the boot loader menu appears use the arrow keys to select the distribution install you want to edit. Next press "A".

3. You will be given a grub prompt that looks like the following.
grub append> ro root=LABEL=/

4. Put the word "single" at the end of the grub append prompt and press enter. Note there is a space before the word single.
grub append> ro root=LABEL=/ single

5. The system will boot into single-user mode. At the prompt enter passwd root and enter the new root password.
sh-2.05# passwd root

6. Now reboot the server and you should be able to log back in as root.



Comments

anonymous , 2009-06-26 16:18:25
Worked great! I was able to reset my servers root password and regain access.
Giovanni , 2010-05-25 15:53:17
Thanks, it worked for me!
Vinod Kumar , 2010-05-25 15:54:00
Worked great! I was able to reset my servers root password V!nod

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