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Recovery root password on Centos 7

1. In the boot grub menu select option to edit.

2. Select Option to edit (e).

3. Go to the line of Linux 16 and change ro with rw init=/sysroot/bin/sh.

4. Now press Control+x to start on single user mode.

5. Now access the system with this command.

chroot /sysroot

6. Reset the password.

passwd root

7. Update selinux information

touch /.autorelabel

8. Exit chroot

exit

9. Reboot your system

reboot

That’s it. Enjoy.