On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 23:55 -0400, Gordon McLellan wrote: > 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 > <snip> It seems some files are missing for the vmware-authd process (that listen by default on tcp port 902). Have you verified your VMware-server rpm ? rpm -V VMware-server -- Fabian Arrotin <fabian.arrotin at arrfab.net> Solution ? echo '16i[q]sa[ln0=aln100%Pln100/snlbx]sbA0D4D465452snlbxq' | dc -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070623/16be645f/attachment-0005.sig>