How to reset passwords on Fedora 21 and 22 | Linux Today

How to reset passwords on Fedora 21 and 22

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Mar 19, 2015

Thanks to a very strict password policy and one too many passwords to remember, I managed to forget both the root and user account passwords of a test Fedora 21 installation.

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