Thanks to all who replied! As a security feature, I chose not have a root account on the
machine (of course, I never expected my sudo access to disappear) and have not had it on
any of my machines ever since Fedora allowed that possiblity (circa
Fedora-low-teens-or-before).
The proposed solution below is what I was looking for.
Thank you!
Best wishes,
Ranjan
TOn Tue, 9 Feb 2016 10:02:31 -0700 jd1008 <jd1008(a)gmail.com> wrote:
To the OP of this thread:
Why not
boot a live CD or DVD
Once booted,
su - root
mkdir /fedora
mount /dev/sd ?? /fedora (?? are something like a0 or a1 ...etc ...
the name of your hard drive boot partition)
chroot /fedora
passwd root
now you can enter a new password.
HTH
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