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Hello, everyone, and welcome to this lesson.

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So here we are going to learn about how we can break the root password.

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Or maybe you come across a situation in which you just forgot the password for your computer and you

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need to log in, or for some reasons, you are locked out of your computer.

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So in that case, how are you going to reset your password or how you're going to break in and reset

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the password and log in into your computer?

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So for that, I'm just going to quickly restart my copy machine.

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So this is my machine which has successfully restarted.

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I'll hit enter and I'll wait for this to start.

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So this is my Linux machine which has restarted.

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I'll hit enter and I'll wait for this to go onto the login screen.

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All right.

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So I think now it is going to boot up onto its login screen and I'm going to show you that I will not

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log in with the correct password.

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Or maybe I've just forgot my password for some reasons.

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My username is root, but the password is incorrect.

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So currently I'm typing in the password, which is ABCDE.

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That is obviously incorrect password.

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So I'll just copy that and I'll paste it over here and try to hit login once more and you can see the

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password is incorrect.

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Now you may come across these situations in life, but then you now need to go into your machine, but

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you don't know the password.

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So you're going to reset the password using a technique.

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So let's do this.

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So for it, you need to restart your computer before restarting.

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Here are some steps to reset the root password.

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So the first is boot into the grub menu.

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So this is basically nothing.

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Just do a restart and it will automatically pop up a grub menu which is Grand Unified Bootloader, which

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is nothing.

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Just the screen which sees you that you need to start the Kali machine.

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After that, you have to select the second option and you need to press E, which is you need to edit

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in order to edit the boot entry as shown below.

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So first, let's do this two steps.

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So I'm going to restart the machine and wait for my machine to boot up.

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And as soon as we see the grub menu, we press E to edit the entry.

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And you can see clearly over here it says G and you grab version 2.04 over here and you can also see

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that here there are certain characters in String which are being written.

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All right.

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So now the next step is to find the keyword, which is Linux and search for r o that is read only and

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replace that with read and write.

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So let's see where is Linux?

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And here it is Linux.

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And we can also see that it is written as R o which is read only.

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We need to modify that to read.

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Right.

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This is done.

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Next step is find quiet and replace with init bin bash.

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So let's just do that.

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So here is quite so let's just remove that and we're going to say in it which is initialize and we're

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going to say equals to bin bash.

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But in the new version of Kali, it has implemented Z search.

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So I will just say instead of bash this time bin slash z search, which is the latest shell done now

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you need to click F10.

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It will save these changes and give a restart to our machine.

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So let's wait for this to complete.

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And now you will come across a screen on which you need to see that.

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Do we successfully have the read write permissions or.

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No?

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If we have that, that would be awesome.

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And now we can reset the password without logging in into the application.

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So now we can reset the password without knowing the correct password.

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So this is the screen and now here we need to type mount.

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So we need to type mount command to check if we have the read write permissions.

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It is granted or no so quickly type under and you'll see.

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Yeah, we have RW that is awesome.

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Now we know we need to reset the password so the command would be passed WD And the username that we

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want to reset for.

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So it is a route right now.

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So I'll choose a new password which is route and again the same password which is route and hit enter

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and you can see the password is updated successfully.

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Now I need to restart so I will say execute as bin and initialize the run level so it will automatically

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restart my computer and now I should be able to reset the password.

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So I'll just copy a BCD and paste it over here.

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So the new password that I set was a BCD, not root.

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So the username is root.

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The password is a BCD which was not working before, but it has worked now, which means we have successfully

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logged in into our machine with resetting the password from the grub menu.

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You can check.

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I am the root user currently and we have used the password abcd by resetting it from the grub menu.

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I hope you guys understood this.

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Thank you.