Reset Centos 7 Root Password

Reset Centos 7 Root Password

You can reset the Root password of Centos 7 in a different way than Centos 6. Let me show you how it works.

1-In the Enable grub menu, select Edit option to start

2-Press the keyboard key e to enter the editing page

3-find the line in Linux 16 and change ro to rw init =/sysroot/bin/sh.

4-Now press Control + x to start in Single User Mode

5-now, you can use the following command to access the system

Chroot/sysroot

6-reset the password

Passwdroot

7-exit chroot

Exit

8-restart your system

Reboot

That's it!