Fedora 18 VMWare 9, password reset in GRUB Boot Menu

asked 2014-01-23 08:26:46 -0600

lenkei01
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updated 2014-01-27 05:31:48 -0600

FranciscoD_
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Hi,

I've been trying to figure out how to reset my password and have gone through number of posts to try and solve this. But when I boot and press 'e' to start up the grub root menu, I don't see a kernel line that I can edit to go into single user mode.
The lines I see are:

     setparams 'Fedora'
     load_video
     set gfxpayload=keep
     insmod gzio
     insmod part_msdos

The root menu before this just has the options for 'Fedora' and 'Advanced options for Fedora'. I also can't use the 'passwd' command in the grub command line, although 'password' works but I couldn't reset it successfully. I don't remember ever even entering a password when I installed this. I also tried CTRL+ALT+F2, and typed 'root', and a blank password, and it still didn't work.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance!

answered 2014-01-23 08:57:39 -0600

Ahmad Samir

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I've updated the content on this wiki page recently to add instructions about using GRUB2 (which the current default boot loader) https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_reset_a_root_password#Using_GRUB2 GRUB2 is what F18 uses by default.

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thank you so much!
for some reason, i was able to find the linux line this time. i think i saw another post mentioning this line to edit and i couldn't find it. anyways, i've reset the root password, but when i start fedora it has my computer name as my user name and i typed in the new root password and it still says 'Authentication Failure'. when i reset the root password was it not for this account? i'm having trouble with the fedora sign in screen..

lenkei01 ( 2014-01-27 19:36:14 -0600 )edit

Actually no, the root account is by default a separate account from user accounts.

To login with your user name you need to use the password you set for that user account.

Ahmad Samir ( 2014-01-28 10:26:44 -0600 )edit

thanks! but actually i never set up this account or any password with it. i think it showed up there by default maybe, but how would i go about retrieving this. there's no option for "forgot your password". could i reset the user name password, as i did with the root password?

lenkei01 ( 2014-01-28 11:05:42 -0600 )edit

Yes, use passwd username e.g. passwd lenkei01.

Ahmad Samir ( 2014-01-29 02:01:10 -0600 )edit

at least in the fedora sign in screen the user name displays as "First Last" with my first and last name, "Len Kei" i found out how to get the actual username by typing ls /home at the command line. now when i type passwd myusername it updates successfully and i can now log in! just posted the extra step i took in case someone else ran into a similar problem. thanks so much for the help!

lenkei01 ( 2014-01-29 07:59:22 -0600 )edit

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