I lost a root password and i need to give it, I treid to
change it through single usermode even though i am not get
a password, then what is the other procedure to give a root
password?
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Answer Posted / rallapalli
Enter into Single user mode and check the /etc/shadow file
is there are not if it is not there do this
#cp /etc/shadow~ /etc/shadow
now give the password
#passwd
Thanks
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