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VMware Photon OS Remote SSH: Password Authentication Fix

After installing and setup VMware Photon OS in my lab on VM. While doing remote SSH to the Photon OS, my root user login was failing after providing correct password multiple times. In the last it was showing Too many authentication failures.

Screenshot of a PowerShell console showing an SSH connection attempt to root@192.168.34.48 repeatedly failing with 'Too many authentication failures' and a disconnect message.

As remote SSH root login attempt was failing, I …

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Photon OS: Allow Ping (ICMP) Through IPTables Firewall

While working with VMware Photon OS, I was seeing an issue where I configured IP addresses successfully, but ping (ICMP) was not working from outside. This occurs due to ICMP (ping) traffic is blocked by default in Photon OS’s iptables firewall rules.

To resolve this and allow ping functional…

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How to reset vCenter Server SSO [email protected] password

Whenever I get a already configured VMware vSphere projects handover to optimization and modernization, Sometimes I received infrastructure vCenter server with forgotten passwords either root or [email protected]. In my earlier blog I have already shows a procedure to Resetting root pass…

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VMware Skyline Collector Password Recovery (KB52652)

After configuring few instances of VMware Skyline I found I am no longer able to login through ssh root or on web portal through admin, the default password was not working. Another thing was whenever logging through SSH tool I was getting root is locked up. For this skyline has simple and nice know…

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