Sorry for the OT question; I'm hoping someone else has a similar setup and ran into this same problem?

For some reason, not sure what I changed, my vmware server is no longer accepting the root login for the management console or web mui interface. I'm certain the password is correct, and I've even reset root's password to make sure. VMware seems to be running ok, I can access my virtual machines just fine, as well as start and stop the vmware service.

The host OS is centos 4.5 x86-64, nothing special, just a bare bones server install.

Any ideas on resetting what vmware considers the root password, or re-syncing it somehow?

Thanks- Gordon

These are the only log entries I could find corresponding to my login attempts:

[root@incognito log]# tail secure Jun 22 23:48:26 incognito xinetd[4086]: START: vmware-authd pid=7377 from=10.51.51.6 Jun 22 23:48:26 incognito vmware-authd[7377]: PAM unable to dlopen(/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpam.so.0/security/pam_unix2.so) Jun 22 23:48:26 incognito vmware-authd[7377]: PAM [dlerror: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpam.so.0/security/pam_unix2.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory] Jun 22 23:48:26 incognito vmware-authd[7377]: PAM adding faulty module: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpam.so.0/security/pam_unix2.so Jun 22 23:48:26 incognito vmware-authd[7377]: PAM unable to dlopen(/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpam.so.0/security/pam_unix_auth.so) Jun 22 23:48:26 incognito vmware-authd[7377]: PAM [dlerror: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpam.so.0/security/pam_unix_auth.so: symbol pam_syslog, version LIBPAM_EXTENSION_1.0 not defined in file libpam.so.0 with link time reference] Jun 22 23:48:26 incognito vmware-authd[7377]: PAM adding faulty module: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpam.so.0/security/pam_unix_auth.so Jun 22 23:48:26 incognito vmware-authd[7377]: PAM unable to dlopen(/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpam.so.0/security/pam_unix_acct.so) Jun 22 23:48:26 incognito vmware-authd[7377]: PAM [dlerror: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpam.so.0/security/pam_unix_acct.so: symbol pam_syslog, version LIBPAM_EXTENSION_1.0 not defined in file libpam.so.0 with link time reference] Jun 22 23:48:26 incognito vmware-authd[7377]: PAM adding faulty module: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpam.so.0/security/pam_unix_acct.so