Faddom Help Center

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. In the Boot Grub Menu Select Option to Edit
   
   
   
2. Select the option to edit by pressing e
   
   
   
3. Go to the line 16 and replace ro with rw init=/sysroot/bin/sh
   
   
   
4. Press Control+x to start in single user mode
   
   
   
5. Access the system with this command
   

   chroot /sysroot

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

   passwd

7. Update selinux information
   

   touch /.autorelabel

    
8. Exit the editor

   exit

9. Reboot your system
   

   reboot