Can not login as user in Fedora 14

damiokus · 02-28-2011, 08:42 AM

I installed Fedora 14 on a Windows 7 64 bit machine. I forgot my password to access the fedora operating system. Pls, is there a workaround? Thanks.

EricTRA · 02-28-2011, 08:57 AM

Hello and Welcome to LinuxQuestions,

If you have access as root you could enter at the console with your root credentials and change the user's password with the passwd command:

Code:

passwd <username>

which will prompt you to provide a new password. After that you can login with your regular user credentials.

If you also have forgotten that password (normally you provided it at installation), then you can follow a guide like this one:
http://www.go2linux.org/fedora-cento...sword-recovery.

Kind regards,

Eric