How to change permission of my centos if I don't have the root password?

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Published on 2012-04-09T16:14:51Z Indexed on 2012/04/09 17:37 UTC
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I've setup server on mac using virtualbox and my server is centos. but the guy who did it for me he forgot the root password that he setup at the beginning and what happen now is my website have a lot of problem due to the permission issues.

So what can I do in order to retrive the password or even to change my permission without using root?

The group for my website is apache and I believe I'm not in the same group.

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