Linux Administration Cookbook

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By default, restorecon will only restore the type context and leave the others as it found them. This can be overridden with the -F flag. 

We also mentioned resetting the root user's password, which is made oh-so-annoying by SELinux. 

Let's say you've forgotten the root password to your box; the way to go about fixing this is to boot into single-user mode, change the password, and reboot...or at least, that used to be the way.

Now, the steps involved look like this:

1. Reboot the system.
2. Edit the GRUB entry for your installation before it times out.
3. Make sure the linux16 line is rw instead of ro, and change the init to something like /bin/bash.
4. Continue the boot process.
5. Make sure your / directory is mounted as rw, and you can ...