I lost my my root password. So, I’m resetting my root password using Using bash as init method(I’m not able to include links in this post)
But when I’m appending init=/bin/bash to kernel paramater. I’ve been promoted to bash written [majaro/]$
And not
[root@**] as shown in some tutorials.
So, I followed every steps but couldn’t able to reset my password.
Please help.
Hi @NeurlAP1, and welcome!
If you still have your normal user’s password, it should be quite easy.
Just open a terminal and run:
sudo su -
To change to the root
user. From there, run:
passwd
And enter the new password for root
.
Done! Close, exit and test…
Thanks, actually I forgot my sudo password.
So, I’m not able to run any sudo commands.
Are those “tutorials” for manjaro linux. If not then you can follow Reset lost root password - ArchWiki. Also note that manjaro comes with a preconfigured bashrc for both the user and the root. If you are not sure if you are running as root run id -u
. Output 0
means root.
Screenshot
sudo
uses your standard user’s password, not the root
user.
When booting with
init=/bin/bash
your root filesystem is mounted read only
remount it read-write
mount -o remount,rw /
then you can change the password with
passwd
Actually, it has worked previously.
And how to change standard user password ?
Yes, It worked but it’s not changing my sudo password.
Standard user’s password can be changed by just running:
passwd
as that user.
passwd NeurlAP1
(the username you want to change it for …)
Thanks, it worked
Thanks, community for quick support…
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