Comments on: How to Reset the ESXi Root Password

By: Luke Orellana

Luke Orellana — Wed, 06 May 2020 00:21:31 +0000

In reply to Scott. Thanks for the heads up Scott!

By: Luke Orellana

Luke Orellana — Wed, 06 May 2020 00:20:12 +0000

In reply to Fabiano. Hi Fabiano, Are you getting an error when trying to set a new password?

By: Joe Schmuck

Joe Schmuck — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 12:28:57 +0000

This website allowed me to remove my ESXi 6.7 password that I had forgotten. The initial instructions should be updated to edit both sdx5 and sdx6 partitions as they appear to be mirrors so you do need to modify both. Watch the video as well before you do this procedure, it helps explain the editing of the shadow file.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 03 Feb 2020 21:28:11 +0000

Did the exact steps but note you need to run the Terminal with Root Privileges. Otherwise, no bueno.

By: Fabiano

Fabiano — Fri, 31 Jan 2020 06:54:56 +0000

After resetting the password it is giving me a hard time to set a new one and is not keeping the network settings.
Any suggestions?
thank you

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 18 Apr 2019 12:41:59 +0000

Worked like a charm on VMWare ESXi 6.5 U1, thank U very much!

By: Yoram

Yoram — Fri, 01 Mar 2019 17:48:41 +0000

Great!
Saved my day!

By: Ryan Birk

Ryan Birk — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 20:29:09 +0000

In reply to slayer. I would look under /dev/sda5.

By: Ariff Shariff

Ariff Shariff — Sat, 02 Feb 2019 18:41:24 +0000

I am able to remove the password but when I tried to change the password after reboot it is not accepting any passwords irrespective of how complex the password it is. giving me complexity requirements error

By: slayer

slayer — Tue, 29 Jan 2019 17:17:21 +0000

In reply to Salvador Otanez. where did you find the shadow file? I mounted almost every partition and searched it, but did not find it.