Sunday, August 23, 2009

How to recover the root password

How to recover the root password on an ESX 2.x host in single user mode

Reboot the host.
At the LILO prompt select "linux" adding -s to the end of the line (it should read linux -s).
At the bash prompt, type the command 'passwd' to reset the root password.
http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1317898
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