I had an issue in vRealize Orchestrator appliance 7.4 which prevent me to login into the console and i got the error : Account locked due to 6 failed logins .
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First try to reboot the appliance and press space to stop automatic boot .
![](https://www.vmehrabi.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/image-20-1024x507.png)
Then press “e” in order to edit GRUB menu :
![](https://www.vmehrabi.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/image-21-1024x553.png)
After pressing e you will be able to edit the kernel boot option:
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Now append init=/bin/bash to the kernel options:
![](https://www.vmehrabi.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/image-24-1024x186.png)
Then press enter to go back to the GRUB menu, and press b to boot:
![](https://www.vmehrabi.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/image-25-1024x595.png)
Wait until it boots completely:
![](https://www.vmehrabi.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/image-26-1024x550.png)
Try to reset the password for root account and reboot:
![](https://www.vmehrabi.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/image-28-1024x539.png)