[fedora-india] how to reset root password in Fedora 10

[Sanjeev Kumar Mittal]

Hello All,

I have Fedora 2.6.23.1-42.fc8 GNU GRUB version 0.97
At boot time when I press arrow keys I get the screen wherein it prompts
'p' to enter a password to unlock the next set of features. Unfortunately I
lost that password as well as the root password.
How do I bypass this, is there any way.
Please let me know, many thanks in advance.

Thanks & Regards, sanjeev


On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 3:21 AM, Sanjeev Kumar Mittal <skm.works at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am finding this strange problem, that on booting it dont stop for
> options and straight away login without asking any credentials and I guess
> it logs in as user mode.
> However, I wanted to install few updates, etc and hence needed the root
> password. Unfortunately I forgot the root password that I would had set at
> time of installation.
>
> I did an initial search on net on how to reset the root password, however
> I am not able to halt the boot grub and it dont allow me at all, I mean I
> dont get any option to edit or append the boot to go in run level 1.
>
> Kindly could any one let me know any clues that what is wrong in my
> approach or my installation.
>
> Thanks a lot in advance!
>
> --
>
> ~ Best Regards, sanjeev
>



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~ Best Regards, sanjeev
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