[ale] Vmware esxi 3.5 root password lost

Justin Goldberg justgold79 at gmail.com
Wed May 23 11:53:14 EDT 2012


Thanks for the help. I had read that it requires a NIC with support for
tagging (like certain HP NICs per wikipedia), but I was thinking with my
windows cap on.

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Lightner, Jeff <JLightner at water.com> wrote:

> We have an old ESX 3.0.1 environment and all of its guests are Windows
> 2003 so I'd think 3.5.1 could handle that as well.
>
> I'm not sure if you need to boot with slax or not.   Behind the scenes it
> looked like it was derived from RHEL so you may be able to simply interrupt
> the boot, boot into single user and change the password that way.
>
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Justin Goldberg
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2012 8:00 PM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Subject: [ale] Vmware esxi 3.5 root password lost
>
> I have a vmware esxi 3.5.1 server I inherited from someone else with a
> lost password.
>
> My options are:
>
> -boot with slax and modify the /etc/shadow and passwd files within the
> latest modified state.tgz file, and create another root level user and I
> can then change the root password (saving a backup of the file just in
> case).
>
> -null the root password, which I've read on vmware.com can cause problems
> (but its a standalone server with no NFS and has been offline for a year)
>
> -do a reinstall from cd, which will reset the password and manually add
> the datastores back.
>
> Fdisk -l shows 1 VMFS partition, but I can list files on the auto mounted
> /mnt/sda2, sda3, sda5, and sda6 in slax. Also this server has
> 6 scsi drives.
>
> I'd blow the data away but it has a licensed copy of vmware. Also I'm
> curious what is running on it.
>
> Also does anyone know if windows 2003 or 2008 runs well within linux
> vmware?
>
> Thanks
>
>
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