Cannot change the default root password

[poldy]

Trying to change the default password of the root administrator of ESXi 4.1.

For any password just keep receiving the following message:

Call "HostLocalAccountManager.UpdateUser" for object "ha-localacctmgr" on ESXi "...." failed.

[Mohammad1982]

How are you trying to change the password? Please describe the procedure, it will help us assisting you.

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[poldy]

I am trying to change the password using the vSphere client, through the properties of the user root.

[Mohammad1982 · Accepted solution]

In order to change the root password you need to login to the ESXi server from the console.

login to the ESX console using root password.

#passwd new password

This will change your root password.

[Dave_Mishchenko]

You can change the password with the vSphere client. The error may indicate that you failed to meet the complexity requirements for a password. See this article for password requirements - http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1012033.




Dave

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