Comments on: How to Reset the Root Password in Linux

By: dragonmouth

dragonmouth — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 11:06:17 +0000

In the past few months I have successfully reset my root password a couple of times using the GRUB method. Thanks, Ramces.

By: yocheved

yocheved — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 07:18:47 +0000

Thanks! It’s very helpful, clear and elaborated

By: rxmas

rxmas — Mon, 03 Jan 2022 00:10:51 +0000

The first solution worked for me. Thank you for this!

By: Miguel Leiva-Gomez

Miguel Leiva-Gomez — Sat, 06 Nov 2021 03:21:56 +0000

In reply to PeterP.

If you don’t get a message telling you that the authentication failed it’s much more likely a system issue. Linux seems to be logging you in fine but something isn’t able to get you into the shell for some reason or another. Corrupt bash/zsh/fish shell maybe? Have you tried installing your OS over your current installation without reformatting using a live environment?

I’m not sure what else to do if you can’t query the system due to not being able to enter the shell. Normally I would just grab my Arch Linux thumbdrive and try to chroot into the Linux partition. I’d be happy to work with you more on this problem but by now I’m not sure how helpful I can be.

By: PeterP

PeterP — Tue, 02 Nov 2021 15:25:39 +0000

Thanks but I didn’t manage to reset the password (tried both ways).
The whole process worked fine but when I try to login with the new password the display turn black for a second and then the login screen appears again (no wrong password message)

Any suggestions?

By: dragonmouth

dragonmouth — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 21:50:12 +0000

“2. Reset Lost Root Password Using Live CD”
I assume that could be ANY LiveCD? Does not have to be Ubuntu.

I also assume that a USB stick can be used.

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 18:02:17 +0000

Thank you, very handy article.