Today I updated our Orchestrator appliance to the latest version to fix the bash shell bug. Before I did this I logged into the appliance using both the root and vmware accounts (root used for the appliance web site and vmware used to login to the configuration web site) - both worked so I know I had the correct passwords prior to the update.
After the update and reboot, root still works with the original password I had set, but the vmware account no longer works. I tried the original out of the box password (vmware/vmware) and the password I know worked prior to the upgrade - neither work. I found many posts how to reset the password when running with a Windows Orchestrator host - but not the appliance. Does anyone know how to reset this when using the appliance?
Also - is this a known problem? Updating the appliance horks the configuration user password?
Thanks
NK
the path on the appliance differs, it's (from mind... not 100% sure) /etc/vco/configuration
Cheers,
Joerg
Instructions on resetting the "vmware" password for the vCO Configuration:
Thank you.
NK
Thank you.
NK
I wonder if I have some other problem - like maybe the account is locked out?
I reset the password using this as the password:
vmware=SHA512WithSalt\:GZ5wTW6Ni5x7\:wNCp8I8zHv7GQItrKDRjAgKsddjD4GUZ6nrOYhuEl3D+x4BT5Xs1KL8f/R2T3K2nYPzMwVTW9E9mmbvESAU3ww\=\=
I used VIM to edit the file /etc/vco/configuration/passwd.configuration - as far I can tell I did it correctly. But I guess I am not 100% sure I used the VIM editor correctly...maybe I got some extra junk text in there. Here is the error I get when I try to login:
Login failed: User/password mismatch or account temporarily blocked after too many unsuccessful attempts
thanks
NK
Try another browser then. There have been issues with IE.
Joerg
That was it - I would have never thought IE would have caused the problem.
And - I think I know why the old password broke after the update. It did not have a special character in it. When I tried to change the "vmware" password back to the original (prior to the update) password it complained about missing a special character. So I understand that part - but still odd that IE would not work even after editing the passwd.configuration file and setting it back to the default vmware password.
Thanks for the help
NK