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Old 07-03-2015, 01:03 PM   #1
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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.
 
Old 07-03-2015, 01:18 PM   #2
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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.
 
  


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