Interrupt The Boot Process In Order To Gain Access To A System

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Recover the root user's password

1. Interrupt boot process at grub menu
2. Press “e” to edit the boot entry
3. Navigate to the “linux16” kernel entry
4. Append “rd.break”
5. Ctrl+x to continue boot process, it will stop within the initramfs shell
6. Remount sysroot file system as read/write: mount -o remount,rw /sysroot
7. Change root to that root file system: chroot /sysroot
8. Change root password: passwd
9. Have system relabel at boot: touch /.autorelabel
   1. If this is not done, SELinux will prevent the /etc/passwd file from being changed
10. Exit the chroot jail: exit
11. Exit the initramfs shell: exit
    1. System will reboot after a delay