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Reset root password in CentOS 7 / RHEL 7

There may be some occasion you will end up with requirement to reset the root password, the occasion comes when you forget root password; follow this guide to reset the password of root. In CentOS, single user mode will help us to achieve our goal of resetting root password. Boot your system in to single […]

Password Less Login SSH – CentOS 6 / RHEL 6

SSH is a client and serer protocol, that help us to access the remote system over the network through the encrypted tunnel. Whenever the client access the server, the client downloads the secure key from the server and at the same time server also downloads key from client. Those two keys make the encrypted tunnel […]

Reset Root Password on Linux

Linux Admins are quite lazy and tend to forget everything (some times) except their commands and config-file directives, everything includes passwords also. In such case admin has to recover his own password to login as root. Recovering the root password is quite simple compared to other work. To recover the password. machine has to start with […]

Linux Single User Mode

Single user mode is the one of the Run level in the Linux operating system, Linux operating system has 6 run levels that are used for different requirement or situation. Single user mode mainly used for doing administrative task such as cleaning the file system, Managing the quotas, Recovering the file system and also recover the lost root password. In this mode services […]