7 thoughts on “How to reset forgotten root password with single user mode- RHEL7 | CentOS 7

  • From 4:00 to 4:35, you have run init command to reboot the system, can't we run "reboot" command itself to reboot the system?
    Hope you answer it.

    Thank you for the video.

  • Why need to use in init=/bin/bash ?, second question : I saw different method for root password reset : rd.break console=tty in linux16 line and after that control X and change like mount -o remount,rw /sysroot; chown /sysroot;passwd root;touch /.autorelabel ; exit; exit, why this much need to do in RHEL 7 ?

  • When you change root password the shadow file is modified with incorrect SElinux context.
    Either create a hidden file under root directory #touch /.autorelabel , on the next boot it will create a correct context . Note booting may take time if size of the disk is huge.

    Other way around you can break the booting process, also assign enforcing=0 which makes SElinux temperory permissive so later you can restore the correct context on /etc/shadow and put back SElinux in enforcing mode.

  • Is there any difference between single user mode or maintenance mode and emergency mode ?

  • What are the common errors we get if we are using nfs server and samba services..?
    Can you prepare a video on this…?

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