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How do I change the root password through GRUB?

You can change the root password by booting into the GRUB menu, editing the boot parameters, and using the ‘passwd root’ command in a root shell.

Step 4: Verify the Password Change

To ensure that the root password has been changed successfully, you can:

In this article, we have discussed changing our root password in Kali Linux which is crucial for data protection and system integrity. And after discussion we can say that changing our root password regularly is important for security. One can easily change their root password by understanding and following steps discussed in this article. Overall, we can say that we can strengthen the security of our Kali Linux System.

Kali Linux Default root Password is toor

Step 2: Switch to Root User

Then type the following command and press Enter to switch to the root user.

After this you will be prompted to enter your user password. Enter the password and enter into your root user.

Step 1: Open the Terminal

First open your kali Linux terminal.

Method 2: Changing the Root Password from the Terminal

This method involves using the terminal to switch to the root user and update the password.

Can I change the root password on any Linux system, or is it exclusive to Kali Linux?

The steps provided in the article can be applied to any Linux system that uses the GRUB bootloader, not just Kali Linux.

Step 1: Boot into GRUB Menu.

Restart your Kali Linux machine and wait until the GRUB menu appears. Do not select any options or boot into Kali immediately.

How to change the root password in Kali Linux?

After completing the installation of the Kali Linux machine, the most highly performed task and asked question is to change the root password of your Kali Linux machine.

Note: This is not exclusive only to Kali Linux machines, you can perform the steps in any Linux machine with grub, we are using Kali as an example.

The default credentials for logging into the new Kali machine are username: “kali” and password: “kali”. This opens a session as user “kali” and to access root you need to use this user password following “sudo”.

Changing the root password is easy, but you need to ensure these few things:

Step 3: Modify Boot Parameters

Now you need to find the keyword “linux”, in our case you can see that the last line starts with “linux”, which is kernel selection. In our case “/boot/v,linuz-5.5.0.0-kali2-amd64” represents our active kernel.

Navigate in the line to “ro” (read only) and replace it with “rw” (read and write).

In the same line navigate to “quite splash” and replace it with

These changes are not saved permanently and grub uses default configurations, once you have made these changes press key “f10” to boot. This will create a terminal session with root privileges.