Resetting lost vSphere Replication root password
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Article ID: 312694
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Products
VMware Live Recovery
Issue/Introduction
Symptoms:
- The root password for the vSphere Replication (VR) appliance is not known by the administrator
- You do not know the root password for the VR appliance
- The VR password is lost
Environment
VMware vSphere Replication 8.x
Resolution
For vSphere Replication 8.X the naming is slightly different at /etc/pam.d/system-auth
It’s an example, but we can modify the parameters as below:
Deny=xxxx (if there’s 3 attempts, you can put 300)
root_unlock_time=1 , so it will be unlocked after 1 second
When you are ready to reboot the machine simply run the following:
echo b > /proc/sysrq-trigger
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