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Gleb Reys July 4, 2008 6 Comments

How To Change Lost Password on Your ESX Server

Doing a few experiments with VMware ESX 3.5 today, I've made a typo (twice!) when setting up a password for one of the systems, and this resulted in me locking myself out of ESX server upon the completion of its install.

Luckily, there's a rather easy way to change the forgotten password to something new, and I thought I'll explain how it can be done.

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Filed Under: Technical Tips, VMware Tagged With: esx, password, recovery, root, VMware

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