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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?

Answer Posted / kvenkat

Login into single user mode and try below things:
1. passswd [ Change Password for root ]
2. rm -rf /etc/nologin
3. remove any "nologin" shell for root user in /etc/passwd file
4. chage -l root then chage -E root
5. passwd -u root
6. chattr -i /etc/passwd /etc/shadow
7. chmod 600 /etc/securetty
8. vim /etc/rc.local --> then remove any line like say "
/etc/nplogin "
9. chsh root [ /bin/bash ]

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