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⟩ Suppose I lost a root password and i need to give it, I treid to change it through single usermode even though i am not get a password, then what is the other procedure to give a root password?

Login into single user mode and try below things:

1. passswd [ Change Password for root ]

2. rm -rf /etc/nologin

3. remove any "nologin" shell for root user in /etc/passwd file

4. chage -l root then chage -E root

5. passwd -u root

6. chattr -i /etc/passwd /etc/shadow

7. chmod 600 /etc/securetty

8. vim /etc/rc.local --> then remove any line like say "

/etc/nplogin "

9. chsh root [ /bin/bash ]

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