How to reset ROOT password in RHEL/CentOS | Linux Today

How to reset ROOT password in RHEL/CentOS

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Feb 16, 2018

this tutorial is about resetting forgotten ROOT password. We all must have faced a situation where we or some other user has forgotten his root password, so how do we reset the…

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