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How To Reset The Root Password of the Faddom OVA

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Written by Alex Patnick
Updated over 2 weeks ago

If you have installed Faddom via OVA in vCenter and have forgotten the root password when connecting by SSH you can reset it by following the below instructions

  1. Press E to edit


  2. Go to the line that starts with Linux. It appears as two lines but is one (highlighted in red). Append rd.break to the end of it

  3. Press Control+X to start in single user mode

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  4. Access the system with this command

    mount -o remount,rw /sysroot

  5. Enter the command
    chroot /sysroot

  6. Enter the password command then follow the onscreen prompts to reset the password for the root user

    passwd

  7. Update selinux information
    touch /.autorelabel

  8. Exit the editor

    exit

  9. Reboot your system

    reboot

  10. Enter the CI using the user root and the password you just entered

  11. Reset the faddom user password with the commnad
    passwd faddom

  12. Connect to SSH via the faddom user to test

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