I know to recover the root password with RHEL 7 and 8, and CentOS 7 and 8, but when I attempt to remount or chroot to /sysroot that does not seem to work on Rocky Linux 8. Can someone provide the official instructions for recovering the root password for this brand? Thanks.

I reset mine perfectly fine with this method: Reboot server, at grub screen press e to edit. Go to end of the linux line and add rd.break Do CTRL-X to boot. Do mount -o remount,rw /sysroot Do chroot /sysroot Do passwd root Do touch /.autorelabel Do exit Now reboot, and you should be able t…

How to recover root password

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stanlo45 December 5, 2022, 6:48am 9

Thanks for the update. It worked for me.

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