Recent content by Wanesabates

Update: I did hold my breath while doing it and it worked, thank you everyone. Restored access finally!!

Hiya, this was it! that's what my hosting company had done ages ago to help me reset a forgotten root password that I had lost lol, they mounted up the file system and chrooted into it, Thanks for recommending Knoppix, I've never heard of it but it looks pretty interesting :).

Hiya, thanks for the extra confidence :D, I will try this and update on the situation and how it goes, thank you.

Hello everyone, Need your help please if possible. So, Not fairly new to Linux but not a *Pro* either. I have been preparing to pass CySA+ and have been training on a locally run Kali Linux (Kali Linux 2019.3) virtual machine on VMware Workstation. Now the stupid part is that I lost my root...