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How to reset root password for sandbox hdp 2.4

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Guru

I changed root password at very first time but it was a quite long time and now I forgot that password.

So can anyone help me to reset it again in hdp 2.4

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Contributor

Hi, I am facing the same problem but but a kernel version 3.10.0.

So i do not have the same screen shot as yours.

Can you please tell me how to do?

Please find attached my screen shots.

screen.pngscreennext.pngkerneloptions.png

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Explorer

The complete steps to reset root password for sandbox is

1. start your VM

2. press f12 to go to grub menu

3. press e

4. select the second line "kernel /vmlinuz-2.632 ...."

5. press again e

6. add s at end of line (<consoleblank=0 quiet s)and press enter.

7. press b which will log you in as root without password.

8. Change password using passwd. Be carrefull, you are in qwerty mode

9. press exit and press entrer