I had to re-visit a vCloud Connector environment I built quite a while ago but could not login to neither VMware vCloud Connector Server nor Node with the admin account. I was sure that I did not change the default password (vmware) so was the customer. I also checked that admin account was not locked out – see “HOW TO: Unlock admin account in vCloud Connector Server / Node” blog post for details.
Here is the error message:
After a bit of goggling I found Marek Zdrojewski’s post “How to upgrade vCloud Connector 2.5 to version 2.6” that mentions that VMware vCloud Connector Server / Node admin password may have expired.
When I tried to login to the vCC Server / Node console as admin, there was a confirmation that the admin password has indeed expired and needs to be changed:
login as: admin
vCloud Connector Node Appliance
admin@vcn001's password:
Your password has expired. Choose a new password.
WARNING: Your password has expired.
You must change your password now and login again!
Changing password for admin.
Old Password:
etc etc
I did not want to change the default password and therefore reconfigured admin account to stop it expiring.
Login to vCCS/vCCN as root and use chage command check current admin account aging.
login as: root
vCloud Connector Node Appliance
root@vcn001's password:
vcn001:~ # chage -l admin
Minimum: 0
Maximum: 365
Warning: 7
Inactive: -1
Last Change: Jun 15, 2013
Password Expires: Jun 15, 2014
Password Inactive: Never
Account Expires: Never
To disable password aging / expiration for user admin, type command as follows and set:
Maximum Password Age to 99999
Account Expiration Date to -1
vcn001:~ # chage -M 99999 -E -1 admin
Aging information changed.
vcn001:~ # chage -l admin
Minimum: 0
Maximum: 99999
Warning: 7
Inactive: -1
Last Change: Jun 15, 2013
Password Expires: Never
Password Inactive: Never
Account Expires: Never
Hope this helps.
I would like to thank Marek Zdrojewski (@MarekDotZ) for his prompt replies and his help to get me on the right track in troubleshooting this issue. Please check out his blog http://defaultreasoning.com
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