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    <title>topic Re: Can't change root password on ESXi 6.7 in ESXi Discussions</title>
    <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Can-t-change-root-password-on-ESXi-6-7/m-p/2877772#M278929</link>
    <description>&lt;P&gt;Hello.&lt;BR /&gt;The info in this link may help you.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/com.vmware.vsphere.vcenterhost.doc/GUID-730BC171-4BED-4975-84A1-BC40C071D4F3.html" target="_blank"&gt;https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/com.vmware.vsphere.vcenterhost.doc/GUID-730BC171-4BED-4975-84A1-BC40C071D4F3.html&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2021 17:17:35 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>e_espinel</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2021-11-12T17:17:35Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Can't change root password on ESXi 6.7</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Can-t-change-root-password-on-ESXi-6-7/m-p/2877763#M278927</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;The only KB I could find about this refers to the password not being complex enough.&amp;nbsp; The password meets all the criteria.&amp;nbsp; The passwd command doesn't even let me enter the password, it throws this error.&amp;nbsp; I also tried from the web client, same issue.&amp;nbsp; Any idea how to fix this?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;[root@xxxx-esxi00:~] passwd&lt;BR /&gt;Changing password for root&lt;BR /&gt;passwd: Authentication token manipulation error&lt;BR /&gt;passwd:&lt;BR /&gt;[root@xxxx-esxi00:~]&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2021 16:51:14 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Can-t-change-root-password-on-ESXi-6-7/m-p/2877763#M278927</guid>
      <dc:creator>mbartle</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2021-11-12T16:51:14Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Can't change root password on ESXi 6.7</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Can-t-change-root-password-on-ESXi-6-7/m-p/2877771#M278928</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Full process: &lt;A href="https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1004659" target="_blank"&gt;https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/1004659&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2021 17:17:29 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Can-t-change-root-password-on-ESXi-6-7/m-p/2877771#M278928</guid>
      <dc:creator>scott28tt</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2021-11-12T17:17:29Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Can't change root password on ESXi 6.7</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Can-t-change-root-password-on-ESXi-6-7/m-p/2877772#M278929</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hello.&lt;BR /&gt;The info in this link may help you.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/com.vmware.vsphere.vcenterhost.doc/GUID-730BC171-4BED-4975-84A1-BC40C071D4F3.html" target="_blank"&gt;https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/com.vmware.vsphere.vcenterhost.doc/GUID-730BC171-4BED-4975-84A1-BC40C071D4F3.html&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2021 17:17:35 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Can-t-change-root-password-on-ESXi-6-7/m-p/2877772#M278929</guid>
      <dc:creator>e_espinel</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2021-11-12T17:17:35Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Can't change root password on ESXi 6.7</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Can-t-change-root-password-on-ESXi-6-7/m-p/2877777#M278931</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;This doesn't work. I am SSH in as root.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I tried to issue the command passwd and specifying the root account yet it still gives this error . Doesn't even give me a chance to enter the new password&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;passwd root&lt;BR /&gt;Changing password for root&lt;BR /&gt;passwd: Authentication token manipulation error&lt;BR /&gt;passwd:&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2021 17:30:35 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Can-t-change-root-password-on-ESXi-6-7/m-p/2877777#M278931</guid>
      <dc:creator>mbartle</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2021-11-12T17:30:35Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Can't change root password on ESXi 6.7</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Can-t-change-root-password-on-ESXi-6-7/m-p/2877792#M278933</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hello.&lt;BR /&gt;Try another way:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Login to the DCUI (to enable the ESXi Shell if not already done) Login with root and the correct password. Go to Troubleshooting Options Select Enable ESXi Shell&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Press CTRL+ALT+F1 At the ESXi shell login with root and the password Run the following commands to show number of failed attempts:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;STRONG&gt;pam_tally2 --user root&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;Post your result&lt;BR /&gt;If you succeed to login you can also try to change the password&lt;BR /&gt;you should get something like this&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="e_espinel_0-1636740965743.png" style="width: 400px;"&gt;&lt;img src="https://communities.vmware.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/92028iCD09063194D34B2F/image-size/medium/is-moderation-mode/true?v=v2&amp;amp;px=400" role="button" title="e_espinel_0-1636740965743.png" alt="e_espinel_0-1636740965743.png" /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;In ESXi 6.5 and later, default password compliance is mix of characters from four character classes is used when creating a password.&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;The character classes are:&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Lowercase letters&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Uppercase letters&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Numbers&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Special characters (e.g. _ or -)&lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2021 18:18:20 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Can-t-change-root-password-on-ESXi-6-7/m-p/2877792#M278933</guid>
      <dc:creator>e_espinel</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2021-11-12T18:18:20Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: Can't change root password on ESXi 6.7</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Can-t-change-root-password-on-ESXi-6-7/m-p/2878785#M279003</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Fixed the issue.&amp;nbsp; There was an entire line missing from /etc/pam.d/passwd .&amp;nbsp; No idea how that happened (this is a ESXi built into a Dell IDPA solition I was trying to change password on)&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;EMC support helped me.&amp;nbsp; We had to add this and then I was able to change the root password right away&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;# Change only through host advanced option "Security.PasswordQualityControl".&lt;BR /&gt;&lt;STRONG&gt;password requisite /lib/security/$ISA/pam_passwdqc.so retry=3 min=disabled,disabled,disabled,7,7 &lt;/STRONG&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2021 14:34:39 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/Can-t-change-root-password-on-ESXi-6-7/m-p/2878785#M279003</guid>
      <dc:creator>mbartle</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2021-11-18T14:34:39Z</dc:date>
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