This is what you need to easily reset lost password of
Kali Linux just in one minute. Kali, the Linux based Operating System and Swiss army knife of hackers which mostly used for penetration
testing nowadays. This article may be important for penetration tester or those who are using Kali Linux for daily activity, such as ethical hacking, penetration testing, or students of information security fields.
How to Reset Lost Password of Kali Linux 2019.x?
1. Boot your Kali system and let the
GNU Grub page will appear.
2. On the
GNU GRUB page selects the
*Advanced options for Kali GNU/Linux option by down arrow key and press enter.
3. Now simply select the second one
Recovery mode option and press
E key to go to recovery mode of Kali Linux.
4. To modify it just change read-only mode (
ro) to
rw (write mode) and add
init=/bin/bash like below screenshot then press
F10 to reboot the Kali Linux.
5. After rebooting the Kali Linux system, it will bring you the bellow screen to reset Kali Linux password.
6. To reset root password of Kali Linux system, simply type “
passwd root” and hit the enter. Then type the new password twice for the root user. After successfully resetting Kali Linux lost password, you will see the succeed message*
password update successfully*. Well reboot the system normally and log in with a newly changed password of root user.
