Single User Mode: Resetting/Recovering Forgotten Root User Account Password in RHEL/CentOS 7

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Ravi Saive
Mar 20, 2015

Have you ever encountered a situation when you missed your user account password on a Linux System? And the situation can be worse if you forgot the root password. You cannot perform any system wide changes. If you forget user password, you can easily reset it using root account.

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Ravi Saive

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