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    <title>topic vCenter Appliance loses password? in vCenter™ Server Discussions</title>
    <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vCenter-Server-Discussions/vCenter-Appliance-loses-password/m-p/426119#M12844</link>
    <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;We have a vCenter 5.1 Appliance VM that seems to lose its Root password every few days and our backups start to fail.&amp;nbsp; We try to log in as Root and get an "incorrect username or password" error.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;We then have to log into an ESXi host and restart the vCenter VM.&amp;nbsp; After the vCenter reboots, we can log into it again with Root.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Any ideas?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 19:27:18 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>CTSTech</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2013-02-04T19:27:18Z</dc:date>
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      <title>vCenter Appliance loses password?</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vCenter-Server-Discussions/vCenter-Appliance-loses-password/m-p/426119#M12844</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;We have a vCenter 5.1 Appliance VM that seems to lose its Root password every few days and our backups start to fail.&amp;nbsp; We try to log in as Root and get an "incorrect username or password" error.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;We then have to log into an ESXi host and restart the vCenter VM.&amp;nbsp; After the vCenter reboots, we can log into it again with Root.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Any ideas?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 04 Feb 2013 19:27:18 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>CTSTech</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-02-04T19:27:18Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: vCenter Appliance loses password?</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vCenter-Server-Discussions/vCenter-Appliance-loses-password/m-p/426120#M12845</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;Anyone else run into this issue?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 17:03:22 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vCenter-Server-Discussions/vCenter-Appliance-loses-password/m-p/426120#M12845</guid>
      <dc:creator>CTSTech</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2013-02-08T17:03:22Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: vCenter Appliance loses password?</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vCenter-Server-Discussions/vCenter-Appliance-loses-password/m-p/426121#M12846</link>
      <description>&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;&lt;/HEAD&gt;&lt;BODY&gt;&lt;P&gt;If its vCSA 5.5, it is likely to be this, &lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;A href="http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2069041" title="http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2069041"&gt;VMware KB: vCenter Server Appliance 5.5 root account locked out after password expiration &lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;For other versions there are few possibilities I can think of&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Do you have any password management/compliance utility , these tools have a tendency to reset password regularly&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Or&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Have you configured password aging&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Interesting thing to note is that on a reboot the password is recovered, strange...&lt;/P&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2014 15:28:29 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/vCenter-Server-Discussions/vCenter-Appliance-loses-password/m-p/426121#M12846</guid>
      <dc:creator>CedricAnto</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2014-05-29T15:28:29Z</dc:date>
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