Comments on: How to Reset Forgotten Root Password in CentOS 8

By: Christopher Burkowitz

Christopher Burkowitz — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 03:01:38 +0000

Worked perfectly. Threw me off for a second as I didn’t realize we were CHOOSING user: root. Plus how it doesn’t show your output when typing the password and then confirming the password. I got it the second time around though xD

Thanks. This was really cool. You are a true Hat!

By: Fragkiskos

Fragkiskos — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 17:38:12 +0000

Hello, I have many OS installed, Ubuntu 20.04 is the grub boot loader, I cannot reset the CentOS8 root password because it doesn’t work. Any ideas?

By: ramesh

ramesh — Sun, 27 Sep 2020 12:33:39 +0000

In reply to akhil.

did you find a solution for this? I also have the same issue.

By: Joe Atcheson

Joe Atcheson — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 16:10:30 +0000

I have just tried this, but when I get to the # chroot /sysroot step, I am being told: “chroot: failed to run the command ‘/bin/sh’: No such file or directory”.

Please can you help me?

Thanks, Joe

By: akhil

akhil — Fri, 31 Jul 2020 12:39:48 +0000

After done this process it is not working it shows me

[FAILED] Failed to start user manager for UID 42.
see ‘systemctl status user@42.service‘ for details

Then what should i do?