{"id":1055,"date":"2019-03-02T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-02T01:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/?p=1055"},"modified":"2019-02-16T16:33:27","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T09:33:27","slug":"reset-your-linux-password-in-single-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/02\/reset-your-linux-password-in-single-mode.html","title":{"rendered":"Reset Your Linux Password In Single Mode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This step will work on especially on CentOS, RedHat, and Fedora. Make sure you didn\u2019t put any password for your GRUB during installation or this tutorial won\u2019t be any help.<\/p>\n<p>1) Turn on the server until the loading screen appears.<\/p>\n<p>2) While on countdown, press any key to cancel the countdown<\/p>\n<p>3) Select your current Linux kernel:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pass1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pass1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"68\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1056\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pass1.jpg 474w, https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pass1-300x43.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>4) Select the Kernel, then press \u201ce\u201d to edit the line:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pass2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pass2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"87\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1057\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pass2.jpg 474w, https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pass2-300x55.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>5) Go to the end of the line, press the spacebar once, then add the word \u201csingle\u201d like below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pass3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pass3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"29\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1058\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pass3.jpg 474w, https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pass3-300x18.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>6) Press Enter and press \u201cb\u201d to boot that argument that you just modified<\/p>\n<p>7) Wait till it finished loading, then you are able to start typing. Then you may change your password like below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pass4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pass4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"86\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1059\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pass4.jpg 474w, https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pass4-300x54.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>8) When done, type \u201creboot\u201d and you are able to use the new password.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all folks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This step will work on especially on CentOS, RedHat, and Fedora. Make sure you didn\u2019t put any password for your GRUB during installation or this tutorial won\u2019t be any help. 1) Turn on the server until the loading screen appears. 2) While on countdown, press any key to cancel the countdown 3) Select your current\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/02\/reset-your-linux-password-in-single-mode.html\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tutorial"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1060,"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1055\/revisions\/1060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.whplus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}