Hack The Sec-Leading Resource Of Linux Tutorial: gurb

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<span style="color: #990000; font-size: large;"><u>Set Gurb2 Password In Linux</u></span></h1>
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How to reset the root password but its security vulnerable to Linux.Anyone who have physical access to system can easily reset the root password. So we can avoid it by using the setting up of the grub password.</div>
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To set the grub password we set <b>superuser</b> name and password in grub configuration file.</div>
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For this we have to modify the <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">grub2.conf</strong> file in <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">/etc/</strong> directory</div>
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<span style="color: #222222;">firstly we have to create a password by using </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: red;">grub2-mkpasswd-pbkdf2</span></b></span><b style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222;"> </b><span style="color: #222222;">command copy the password and enter password twice as follows</span></div>
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Reenter password:

PBKDF2 hash of your password is: grub.pbkdf2.sha512.10000.19074739ED80F115963D984BDCB35AA671C24325755377C3E9B014D862DA6ACC77BC110EED41822800A87FD3700C037320E51E9326188D53247EC0722DDF15FC.C56EC0738911AD86CEA55546139FEBC366A393DF9785A8F44D3E51BF09DB980BAFEF85281CBBC56778D8B19DC94833EA8342F7D73E3A1AA30B205091F1015A85</pre>
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<span style="color: #222222;">Then open </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">/etc/grub2.conf</b></span><span style="color: #222222;"> file and locate </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/10_linux ###</b></span></div>
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section type the code as follows here I used the username is <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">root</strong> that is our choice</div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">set superusers "root"</b></span><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">export superusers</b></div>
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<b style="box-sizing: border-box;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222;">T</strong><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222;">hat’s It, Now You can reboot and </strong><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222;"><b style="box-sizing: border-box;">Press "e" on Grub Menu</b></strong><strong style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222;">, It will ask you for the password.</strong></b></div>
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