You work as a Linux technician for Tech Perfect Inc. You have lost the password of the root. You want to provide a new password. Which of the following steps will you take to accomplish the task?
You work as a Linux technician for Tech Perfect Inc. You have lost the password of the root. You want to provide a new password. Which of the following steps will you take to accomplish the task?
To reset the root password in Linux if it has been lost, you need to boot into a single-user mode. This can typically be done by rebooting the computer and editing the boot options. Rebooting the computer into run level 0 does not make sense as it is the system halt state. Instead, you should reboot the computer in single-user mode (run level 1) or another appropriate state. However, the most appropriate option detailed in the question is to use INIT=/bin/sh to drop to a shell directly. From there, you can use the PASSWD root command to set a new root password once you have access to a shell prompt in single-user mode. Option C provides the most relevant steps to accomplish this.
answer C