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fapri
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propagate??? please help

I am administrator of small  VMware vSphere infrastructure to integrate with Veeam Backup created a user with VCB role, so far so good.
I created the user enable propagation by child objects.
the most weird is that my administrator profile failed to operate as such, can not do shutdown / restart my VMS like oyher aministrator tasks..... I can not even login through VIC directly to my ESX 4.0 hosts using my admin account.
What went wrong?
please help me to overcome this, so i can fully admin my DC, hosts and VMS, is not the first time I create a user with this type of role and never happened to me this kind of phenomenon.

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bshubinsky
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I'm confused - are you having issues doing those tasks with the VCB account, or with the Administrator account? What happens if you try to log into the host with root?

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fapri
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hello there
this happens using the ESX Admin account, this Vsphere platform was handed to me by another Sys_Admin who is no longer in company, he left, and did not leave the root password. : (

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a_p_
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For ESX you may want ot read http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1317898

André

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fapri
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hello André

Is that the only to do it???? boot Linux in single user mode? because of the problem with ESX Admin user profile i am not able to correct shut the two ESX hosts....... What happens .....

Thanks anyway

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bshubinsky
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Yes this is the only way if you don't have an account with Administrator rights and don't know the root password.

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fapri
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already got the root password for each of the ESX servers can login administratively and separately in each ESX server, however I can not use my vcenter administrator in ESX servers, as it was before, how can I reverse this situation.

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