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How to Reset Root Password on Red Hat 7

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How to Reset Root Password on Red Hat 7/CentOS 7/Red Hat 8/CentOS 8 The root account is a special user that have all the administrative rights to perform the task and operations on Linux base operating systems (Red Hat 7/8, CentOS 7/8 etc.). Sometime System Administrator forget the root password and have no other user to login on machine that have sudo rights that is equivalent to root user for reset the root password or perform all administrative task. Best administrator have at least have one more user other than root user to perform all administrative task with sudo rights. If other user have sudo rights it can execute any command means even to reset the root password of the machine. In this lab we will reset root password from grub bootloader boot options, you must have console access of the machine because you cannot reset the password by use of SSH because grub bootloader boot options is not available through SSH. What is GRUB? Grub stand for GNU GRand Unified Boot loader. The Gr...