Wrong Password!

[waxy]

I have a fresh install of proxmox ve 8.2 and after I have set everything up I logged into the machine using my web browser, went straight to creating a VM. After my VM was created I logged into it and suddenly I lost connection to my server. I thought it might of been an error in my network configuration but it wasn't. Apparently I one of my RAM sticks was faulty and wouldn't let the system boot. Anyways I replaced that stick and now when I try to log into the machine I get a "Login incorrect" message even though I'm 100% sure about my password. Please help me and thanks in advance.

 

[Dunuin]

Bad RAM means you maybe now got corrupted data on disk. Wouldn't be the first time reading here that the /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow corrupted preventing logging in.

 

[justinclift]

Ahhh. There's a bunch of different ways to get into a system where you've locked yourself out. The common theme of them is booting up an environment where you have enough power/control to change the locked-out system.

Probably the easiest way to try first is booting Proxmox but using init=/bin/bash on the kernel boot line. The init bit tells the kernel to us /bin/bash as the program to run after loading the kernel instead of doing a standard boot.

What that does is drop you into a root user bash shell with the root filesystem mounted. After changing the filesystem to be read-write, you can then proceed with trying to reset the password of the root user (ie passwd root) then force a reboot (reboot -f). Hopefully the system will come back up ok then.

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That being said, it's an awful lot of mucking around for a freshly installed Proxmox system, and there's no telling what else the bad ram may have corrupted. You're probably better off just reinstalling Proxmox so the whole system is then in a "known good" state instead.

 

[waxy]

Thanks very much for the help. I ended up reinstalling it. I didn’t want to go through the hassle of fixing it since it is a fresh install.