[mdlug] Vmware ESXi 6.x root password lost

[Carl T. Miller]

If this happened to me and I felt like a cowboy, I'd
just run the SystemRescue iso on a  ventoy usb,
then either clear root's password or make another
user with UID 0.  As I recall, ESXi is based on Red
Hat, so it should work.

If I wanted to be sure, I'd install ESXi 6.x in a vm
and test before doing it for real.

c


On 2/26/23 10:48 AM, Gmail-otakurider wrote:
> Any one know of non-destructive way to change the root password on 
> VMware ESXi 6.x all in one system? The past support person left and no 
> ones knows the proper passwords.  Doing some google searches, I get 
> conflicting ways to do it (from simple boot and set to single user 
> mode and change, to reinstall the host system files).  Sadly machines 
> running as guests have bad habits of taking long time to become stable 
> after a reboot (I am talking hours before stable connections, very old 
> systems and no one want to pay to update or move them), so its only 
> gonna be a one time deal and want to do this when have the correct 
> steps. Sadly I have no test hardware, or I would try all the ways I 
> have found to find one that does work.
>
>
> Thanks
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