Root password and bootloader password issues
 

Hello, my department has inherited to CentOS server which we cant access. We do not have the root password. Also When I tried rebooting the bootloader appears to be password protected. Is there any way to recover these? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

yes you can boot with live system and mount /boot partition and in grub.conf file remove password --md5 field and than boot from hdd in single mode. than you can change password. you can use knoppix live cd.