If you have forgotten the root password it is possible to set a new one by interrupting the boot process at the GRUB stage and forcing the system into run level 1 (single user mode).<\/strong><\/p>\n

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1. Launch the KVM interface<\/strong>\u00a0for your server to access it from the console.<\/li>\n
2. Interrupt GRUB<\/strong>\u00a0by typing a character such as\u00a0“space”<\/strong><\/li>\n
3. Append to the kernel line by typing\u00a0“a”<\/strong>, backspacing through\u00a0“rhgb quiet”<\/strong>\u00a0and appending\u00a0“1”<\/strong>\u00a0and pressing <enter>.<\/li>\n
4. This will give you a root shell and not a login prompt. From there you can use the\u00a0“passwd”<\/strong>\u00a0command to set a new root password.<\/li>\n
5. Restart the server and allow it to boot normally.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","manualknowledgebasecat":[231],"manual_kb_tag":[351],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb\/2563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/manual_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb\/2563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2564,"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb\/2563\/revisions\/2564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"manualknowledgebasecat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manualknowledgebasecat?post=2563"},{"taxonomy":"manual_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/support.aklwebhost.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/manual_kb_tag?post=2563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}