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…

Thanks, I had tried these steps, so I am guessing that when I renamed one of the libraries (for a video I was going to make and share) I must have broken the OS. :frowning: Thanks @iwalker !

@iwalker , can I also recover my root password if I have the media in the “drive” considering this is a VM in reality?

Not sure to be honest. Maybe it’s possible to do it like that, by chrooting after booting from the media and following the remaining steps.

I tried that, but could not find /mnt/sysroot.

Hi. I tried the rd.break, but I still get prompted for the root password. [image]

stlanlo45, It asked me for the password when I selected normal, versioned kernels in grub. When I select the kernel option with “rescue” in the name, the steps above worked for me. [image]

works for me but I add setenforce=0 after rd.break . Reboot server, at grub screen press e to edit. Go to end of the linux line and add rd.break setenforce=0 Do CTRL-X to boot. Do mount -o remount,rw /sysroot Do chroot /sysroot Do passwd root Do touch /.autorelabel Do exit Do exit tip - > maybe r…

Hey mate, I created an account on this forum just to say THANK YOU!! I was tearing my hair out trying to figure out why I wasn’t able to log into the root account after resetting it, and this method worked a charm! I was trying all the other methods for CentOS and nothing was working, but this was …

Hi. Thanks. It worked for me but now I can login only as root. Every time I see “Give root password for maintenance” than login as root but when I try sudo --user=me /bin/bash and startx I see “Permission denied” to console (Xf…). How can I return normal login procedure?

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stanlo45 December 5, 2022, 6:48am 9

Thanks for the update. It worked for me.

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