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Create a Active Directory user and group policy to give administrative privilege of it's local computer.

Small Windows Server 2012 Tutorial Create a Active Directory user and group policy to give administrative privilege of it's local computer. To view Click the link below Give administrative privilege of it's local computer to a Active Directory User In Windows Server 2012

Hacking Root Password In Linux

Hi friends! Time to come back for another blog post regarding Linux and this time we’ll mess with the root account password. My friends who  know Linux at their fingertips would find it easy but nevertheless it’s really interesting. This is the first task one need to do during the RHCE exam. So let’s break the root password from the GRUB. BREAKING LINUX PASSWORD At the time of booting process starts press ESC key to enter OS selection menu. Here highlight the OS using arrow keys and then press E to edit it. Now you will see a screen like this. Select the second line containing information regarding kernel parameters. Now again press E to edit these kernel parameters. We can edit various kernel parameters from here but what we’ll do is to change the runlevel of  System. Once we have entered into parameter editing mode type 1 or s or single after a space and then press ENTER key. Now press B to boot the system in the single user mode. This is the troubleshooting mode f...

Easy steps to reset forgotten root password on CentOS/Red Hat

1. Boot the system and when you see the following message "Press any key to enter the menu", press any key. (You will see the list of available kernel versions.) 2. Press e in order to edit commands before booting. 3. Highlight the list item with vmlinuz in it by using the arrow keys and press e . 4. Now type single or init 1 at the end of the line. 5. Then press enter and b to boot the system with the new argument. (The system will boot into single user mode and you will see bash prompt) 6. Type setenforce 0 and press enter (it will disable your firewall) Now it's time to change the password: 6. Type passwd 1. ### Shell Commands ### 2. passwd 3. Enter new LINUX password: 4. Retype new LINUX password: 5. passwd : password updated successfully 7. Type reboot to restart the system.