#Forgot root password 🤦🏻♂. What are my options? How to reset root password?

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wispy musk
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The title pretty much says it all. Is there a way to reset it in Orchid?

This sounds straight-forward: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Linux_Guide/Reset_a_forgotten_root_password

but when I boot to grub (on a/b root selection) and press "e", i don't get the config listed, but instead see reference to a /vos-a/abroot.cfg. I tried finding the file on my system to see what's in there, but can't find it .

Linux Guide/Reset a forgotten root password

How to reset forgotten root password in a GNU/Linux distribution with GRUB?
If this is a laptop or a desktop which you have next to you then follow these steps.

  1. Shut down the device.
  2. Start it again. When you see GRUB menu, press the ‘e’ key on the keyboard before the system starts booting.
  3. In the GRUB boot options, scroll down and locat...
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Forgot root password 🤦🏻♂. What are my options? How to reset root password?

deep jolt
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Did you forget your user password or did you somehow manually set a root password?

wispy musk
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Oh wow, interesting - I still remember my user password, and I thought I must have set the root password on install, as with other distributions. But given your question, maybe I never actually set it, and it's somehow internally managed by vos instead?

deep jolt
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It's not part of the installation, you normally don't even set it in vanilla

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You can either use sudo in vso-pico or pkexec in the Host-Shell for root access

wispy musk
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Ok, that explains why I don'ŧ remember it 😄