Recover root passeord

[mkmerie]

Hello every one
I need to recover root password on a local machine ..can any one help here please .. I used to login but now after some time I cant use the same password
Please guide me threw
Thanks in advance

 

[Adrian Fretwell]

If it is a local machine and you can get to the boot loader screen when the machines starts up, then the procedure is pretty much the same for most Linux distributions. The following web page may help:
https://linuxconfig.org/recover-reset-forgotten-linux-root-password

 

[mkmerie]

Thank you
So it's the same as any linux distribution
Thought debian is different
Will try that today

 

[Adrian Fretwell]

There are several ways you can do it. You can also do it by booting to something like a sys rescue USB stick and then mount your HDD partition to change the root password.
https://www.system-rescue.org/