📅 Wednesday, 11 February 2026
🕐 8:51 PM
2ways:
Official recomm by redhat:
How to recover a root password in Red Hat-based Linux systems
Manually Hijack PID1 and reset root (way more hectic but not recommended lol)
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rebooted guest OS edit Default kernel
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press e > line starting with linux (for rhel 8 atleast)
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append init=/bin/bash to end of line
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Ctrl+x to boot
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should boot directly into /bin/bash shell
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mount -o remount,rw /
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passwd
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touch /.autorelabel
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/sbin/reboot -f