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...can boot to a 'bash' console and set the > password OK. But this password doesn't seem to work on the subsequent > normal boot. > > Anybody knows why this is so? Most likely you didn't relabel the filesystem. Please take a look at https://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/ResetRootPassword - bottom of the page and the link to access.redhat.com's writeup. John -- I consider the media to be indispensable to democracy, We need an independent media to hold people like me to account. Power can be very addictive and it can be corrosive, and it's important for the me...

Hi, I remember back in the days, there was a neat trick to recover a lost root password, or more exactly, redefine a new password for root. 1. In the bootloader, boot the system with the 'init=/bin/bash' kernel argument. 2. Remount the root partition in read-write mode: # mount -o remount,rw / 3. Set the password for root: # passwd 4. Remount the root partition in read-only