Virtualization & Storage
Before proceeding, take a snapshot or backup of the vCenter Server Appliance. Open the VM console from the vCenter HTML client and reboot the appliance, then press e during startup […]
Before proceeding, take a snapshot or backup of the vCenter Server Appliance. Open the VM console from the vCenter HTML client and reboot the appliance, then press e during startup to enter the GRUB menu.
Find the line starting with “linux” and append: rw init=/bin/bash.
Press the F10 key to continue booting.
Run the command mount -o remount,rw / to remount the root filesystem with write permissions. If the root account is locked due to multiple failed login attempts, unlock it using /usr/sbin/faillock --user root --reset ( pam_tally2 is deprecated in Photon 4). Set a new root password by entering passwd and confirming it twice. Once done, unmount the filesystem using umount / , and then reboot the appliance with reboot -f.
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