Reboot Service Gateway at ESXi/Hyper-V console
During boot you'll see an operating system selection screen. If not, try pressing the left arrow key(←) during the start. Press e within 5s to enter edit mode:
Note: If you missed the screen, go ahead and reboot your server again.
The edit mode looks like following:
Once you are in edit mode, add rd.break enforcing=0 at the end of the line starting with linux16 as shown:
Then press Ctrl-x to start the system.
Reset Password
You will boot into a special shell, in which the switch_root prompt will appear.
Remount the read-only file system /sysroot in write mode by running the following command:
| mount -o remount,rw /sysroot |
| chroot /sysroot |
| passwd admin |
As the picture shows:
Then you're done with it. exit twice to return to normal boot.
Note that you'll be asked to change again on first login since the password was resetted.
Note that you'll be asked to change again on first login since the password was resetted.