I am using Linux 5.14 as a Mikrotik Server and I have forgotten the admin password and i want to login through the command prompt. Someone should please help me.[/SIZE]

There's no such thing as Linux "5.14" ... what distribution are you actually using? You can google around for booting into single user mode which may allow you to reset the root password, but without more details it's hard to give you good advice.

This has been asked (and answered) many, MANY times on here already, and Google also has many answers for this very question; did you try to look this up first??

As btmiller said, there is no such thing as "Linux 5.14", so we don't know what you're using, but the typical way to recover such things is to either boot into single-user/maintenance mode, then type in "passwd root", and put in a new password. You can also boot from CD/DVD into rescue mode, do a manual mount of your hard drive, and manually edit the /etc/shadow file to remove everything between the first two colons ( on the root entry.

Welcome to LinuxQuestions.

I agree that you did not post enough information so will make some assumptions.

Is the server running on a PC or on a router / standalone hardware device? I assume that 5.14 is the Microtik OS version currently installed on the OPs hardware. According to the information below the only way to reset the password is to reinstall the OS for X86 devices.

http://www.mikrotik.com/
http://wiki.mikrotik.com/wiki/Manual:Password_reset

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