Re: Lost vCenter root password

Hi,

I finally found the solution with VMware support.

Solution:

1. Follow the manual http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Recover_root_password:
   1. Boot from SuSE Install CD/DVD:
   2. select Recovery
   3. log on as root without password
   4. fdisk -l to detect a system partition
   5. mount /dev/sda3 /mnt (where /dev/sda3 is the system partition) to mount
2. Reset the root password
   1. do a backup of a shadow file with passwords: cp /mnt/etc/shadow /mnt/etc/shadow-bak
   2. edit the shadow file: vi /mnt/etc/shadow (see Understanding /etc/shadow file)
   3. DO NOT delete passwords, you can't log on with no password
   4. I fortunately have created one other user with a password I know. I copied a hashed form of the password from this user to root. Maybe there is another way to get a hashed form of some word and put it to root if you don't have other user created with a known password.
   5. I can log on as root after reboot.

Thanks to all. Pavel