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forgot the password for your CentOS/Fedora

Written by Mel Kham on . Posted in Linux tutorials

What to do if you forgot the password for your CentOS/Fedora/Redhat machine?? Here are some simple steps to change back the password by entering into single user mode of your machine provided you do not forgotten your grub password if you have set it

 

  1. Reboot your machine
  2. Press ‘Esc‘ key once grub starts loading
  3. Select your kernel press ‘e‘ on one of the kernel to edit the kernel parameter
  4. Press ‘e‘ on the line that starts with ‘kernel /vmlinuz…
  5. Append ”single” or “1” at the end of the line
  6. Press ‘Enter
  7. Press ‘b‘ to boot from the appended kernel
  8. You are now in the single user mode of your linux machine once you get to the shell. You can now change the password of your account using command passwd
  9. Reboot back your machine normally
  10. You can now log in to your machine using your new password

sources: linuxwave

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Mel Kham

Founder of Unixmen, Living in Amsterdam. Am working in my free time to help people to understand the Opensource and to explain them in easy way how to make the fist steps to the the light. Working day and night with my Co-founder Zinovsky to keep this website live even with less resources.

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SK

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Did you add the IP range(Not ip address) in your cacti.conf file? If yes, check your apache log files. You may find the errors. Good luck.

David

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Hi SK,
thanks for your post :)
I did all the steps one by one but I got error 500, also I disable the selinux,and iptabels
In addition I cannot success to get the cacti in localhost.
Any idea?
Thanks

Richard

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I have been searching for a solution to that problem too but with videos. I can’t see anyway to make VLC do this. And nobody can tell me how.
However, I did find a media player called Movist that does it. I will never understand why VLC, the best in my opinion, does not design this feature into their player.

cave

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it can be used to talk or chat through the internet,

it is using strong encryption.

but for example TOR is using some obfuscation because some countrys try to block all outgoing connections which can not be scanned with DPI

And the TOR Project is facing an arms race in obfuscation and encryption detection.

cave

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You can friend someone if you give him your public Certificate.

both peers must friend each other.

i suggest to not enter a valid e-mail address. it is not necessary, but pgp needs a mail addy. something@something.so fits perfectly… :)

http://redd.it/18vsq5 <– faq, featurelist, todo, howto, useful links to manual wiki etc, …

you can connect to chatservers, which will give you access to chatlobby, where always some people are lurking.

#1 https://www.f2f-fr.net/w2c/en/
#2 http://retrosharechatserver.no-ip.org/w2c/en/

and in this rooms, you can find other people to talk and friend.

 
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