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Hello.
Try another way:

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

Press CTRL+ALT+F1 At the ESXi shell login with root and the password Run the following commands to show number of failed attempts:

 pam_tally2 --user root

Post your result
If you succeed to login you can also try to change the password
you should get something like this

e_espinel_0-1636740965743.png

In ESXi 6.5 and later, default password compliance is mix of characters from four character classes is used when creating a password.

The character classes are:

    Lowercase letters

    Uppercase letters

    Numbers

    Special characters (e.g. _ or -)

 

 

Enrique Espinel
Senior Technical Support on IBM, Lenovo, Veeam Backup and VMware vSphere.
VSP-SV, VTSP-SV, VTSP-HCI, VTSP
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