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sh-2.05b# passwd
Changing password for user root.
New UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: all authentication tokens updated successfully.

That's it! You have changed the ESX password! Now it's time to reboot (Optional) the system and allow ESX server to come back up online.

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Redhat Entreprise 4 & ESX3.5

Posted by cfo Sep 4, 2008

The driver disk is only supported for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 Update 2 (kernel version 2.6.9-22.EL). Other versions of the kernel are not yet supported.

http://www.vmware.com/support/esx2/doc/esx2-rhel4-update.html

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Enable SSH on ESXi

Posted by cfo Sep 2, 2008

1. On ESXi, press "ALT-F1"
2. Tapez “unsupported” and "Enter"
3. Enter password root
4. Enter:sed -e “s/#ssh/ssh/g” -i /etc/inetd.conf
5. Reboot daemon inetd # kill -HUP `ps | grep inetd | cut -c1-5`

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