Root Password Expired

Description:

I ran into an issue while trying to lock down my testlab Centos 7 VM where a bash script I ran made the root password expire! Here is how to resolve:

To Resolve:

1. Reboot the machine.

2. Follow steps in my post about getting in to pre-boot

   chroot /sysroot
   
   # Set password to never expire (probably not best practice, but we change ours every 180 days anyways)
   chage -I -1 -m 0 -M 99999 -E -1 root
   
   # Go ahead and change it for now
   passwd root
   
   # Update SELinux Info
   touch /.autorelabel
   
   reboot -f
   

3. Now log back in locally and see if it works!