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Root password

simonga Sep 13, 2011 10:05 AM

Hi,

What is the root password for the appliance? I have had a power failure on the machine running the virtual instance of Solarwinds Virtualization Manager, which means i need to run fsck before it can restart.

However, i can't run fsck without the root password.

Thanks in advance!

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jonathan.reeve Sep 13, 2011 11:20 AM (in response to simonga)

I will send that to you offline since we don't publish that.
Jon
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  roche454 Sep 13, 2011 1:57 PM (in response to jonathan.reeve)
  
  Same issue here. Maybe you could send it to me as well?
  
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    jonathan.reeve Sep 13, 2011 2:03 PM (in response to roche454)
    
    Will do
    
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      cloudsmith Sep 20, 2011 4:05 PM (in response to jonathan.reeve)
      
      I hate to piggy back on this issue but i had the same problem after a recent power outage. If you could send me the password as well it would be muuuucchhh appreciated.
      
      Thanks,
      Tom
      
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        cloudsmith Sep 21, 2011 3:25 PM (in response to cloudsmith)
        
        Disregard, i just changed the root pword. Turning and churning now.
        
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      kcteague Sep 22, 2011 10:05 AM (in response to jonathan.reeve)
      
      Same issue here. Will you send it to me? Thanks!
      
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        Andy McBride Sep 22, 2011 10:34 AM (in response to kcteague)
        
        Hello all - Lost Admin Passwords are no longer supported on thwack. Please open a support ticket for this issue.
        
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  DennisH Nov 1, 2011 12:56 AM (in response to jonathan.reeve)
  
  Hi jonathan.reeve, could you also please send me the "root" password for the SolarWinds Virtual Manager Appliance as well.?
  I'm just finished installing the VM (Virtualization Manager v4.0 Virtual Appliance for vCenter 2.5), which looked to me that it has a built-in Red Hat Enterprise Linux O/S 5 in it; and I need to adjust some environment settings on this Server (ie: time & Date, User Accounts, etc.) which require a Root account and password.
  I really appreciate you help on this issue.
  
  Thanks & regards,
  Dennis H.
  
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    cloudsmith Nov 1, 2011 8:56 AM (in response to DennisH)
    
    Dennis,
    Solarwinds does not supply the root password from the twack forums any longer. To be honest, it makes sense that they wouldn't give out the root password on a community forum. Since there is no way for them to track whether or not the customers have valid licenses here.
    You have 2 options:
    1. Open a support ticket under the customer portal.
    2. If you're savvy enough with LINUX and the GRUB boot menu you can boot the appliance into single user mode and reset the root password yourself. There is plenty of info on the web for this.
    Hope this helps
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  Manilyn Ramos May 18, 2015 2:52 PM (in response to jonathan.reeve)
  
  hello,
  
  can you also send me the default root password of VMAN please?
  
  Thank you.
  
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    Milan_Volejnik May 19, 2015 1:38 AM (in response to Manilyn Ramos)
    
    Manilyn, login to VMAN appliance as "admin" and run the fsck command via "sudo su".
    
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      Manilyn Ramos May 20, 2015 12:02 PM (in response to Milan_Volejnik)
      
      thanks!!!
      
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    chrispaap May 19, 2015 3:53 PM (in response to Manilyn Ramos)
    
    Manilyn
    As Milan pointed out any administrative functions requiring root on the appliance can be accomplished using "sudo su".
    
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      Manilyn Ramos May 20, 2015 12:02 PM (in response to chrispaap)
      
      Yep
      
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jfc Dec 14, 2015 11:51 PM (in response to simonga)

Hi,

can somebody send root password to me as well? thanks in advance
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  chrispaap Dec 15, 2015 10:56 AM (in response to jfc)
  
  Hi,
  If you login to VMAN appliance as "admin" and run the fsck command via "sudo su"
  
  Does that accomplish what you need?
  
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    jfc Dec 15, 2015 10:59 PM (in response to chrispaap)
    
    I even cannot login to perform this command
    
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      Milan_Volejnik Dec 16, 2015 1:41 AM (in response to jfc)
      
      Hi, if you are unable to login to SSH with "admin" user then it may point to a serious problem. Please contact SolarWinds Support.
      
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        jfc Dec 17, 2015 12:30 AM (in response to Milan_Volejnik)
        
        Ok.Thank you.I will do that
        
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