How to open fedora without user password

Steven Stern subscribed-lists at sterndata.com
Fri Mar 2 15:00:41 UTC 2012


Does he know his root password?  If so, press ALT-F2 (or CTRL-ALT-F2)
at the login screen to get into a console, login as root, and change
the user password.

If he doesn't know the root password, he needs to boot into single user mode -
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/13/html/Installation_Guide/s1-rescuemode-booting-single.html

On Fri, Mar 2, 2012 at 8:54 AM, Biraj Karmakar <brnet00 at gmail.com> wrote:
> One of my friend forgot his user password.He is using fel 15 .So, he
> cannot access his fedora system.Please tell me how to do solve the
> problem.
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