Developer: VIX API

I have the same problem. I hope it am soon repaired.

I dont know what the offical patch will be but here is a workaround I found translating a German document I found.

/etc/init.d/vmware-mgmt stop

vi  /etc/vmware/hostd/authorization.xml

edit the line that talks about

<NextAceId>11</NextAceId>

incrament it past the current "root" or administrator account you have.

so it now reads

<NextAceId>12</NextAceId>

I also deleted

<NextRoleId>11</NextRoleId>

doesnt seem to be used anywhere

I then 

/etc/init.d/vmware-mgmt start

and relogged in.

I was then able to add users.  Looks like the initial script doesnt incrament well and keeps trying to add you to an existing userid.  I dunno why they didnt just use the userid for the users in /etc/password or ldap.

hope that helps

This worked great!  Thanks for the help.  I used a different Admin so I had to specify the UID for the user I created to be the admin.  Very easy fix.

Shouldn't this be in the Server 2.0 discussion, and not the VIX API discussion?

My thanks as well...worked perfectly

Worked perfectly. THANK YOU!

In linux systems the problem is, that vmware-config create the folder /etc/vmware/hostd for user and group root. if you chose another user as administrator for your vmware-enviroment, you won't be able to write into this file, but you need to do, if you want to change and/or add permissions for virtual machines. so the workaround, which works for me and which is still secure, is to give the files in /etc/vmware/hostd group-rights to your administrator-user and allow write-right to the group, e.g. if your administrator-user is "admin" then you should have a group called "admin" (in debian-system this is standard), which one and only member is the user "admin"and change permissions as follows

chgrp admin /etc/vmware/hostd/*

chmod g+w  /etc/vmware/hostd/*

Actually you dont need to change permissions for all files, but I'm to lazy to find out, which files will be affected and I want to prevent future permission problems, so I change permissions for the whole directory.