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Listed below are the step by step procedures to reset the root password in different versions of CentOS, CoreOS, Debian, Ubuntu and FreeBSD. Begin this procedure by booting your server into single user mode.

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By: mordin_

The FreeBSD instructions in that howto are missing the important step to remount / rw i.e. with: /sbin/mount -uw /

By: Kernel Training

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