How To Recover the Root Password on an Oracle System Running Linux (Doc ID 1008917.1)

Last updated on OCTOBER 04, 2021

Applies to:

Sun 3rd Party Software Product - Version Not Applicable and later
All Platforms

HOW TO RECOVER A LOST ROOT PASSWORD WITHIN LINUX

A new system has been taken out of the box and root password is not known. One cannot log into the system because the root password has been lost.

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