Get root password policy on Photon Appliances like Vcenter or Vrops

[orbion]

Team

is there any chance to get the info you can see below using some powercli script or command...this info came from run a local os command on vcenter/vrops wich is a Liux OS Photon

Thx in advance to everyone!!!!!!!!

root@b02peivis001labvc [ /etc/pam.d ]# chage -l root

Last password change                                    : Mar 09, 2020

Password expires                                        : Jun 07, 2020

Password inactive                                       : never

Account expires                                         : never

Minimum number of days between password change          : 0

Maximum number of days between password change          : 90

Number of days of warning before password expires       : 7

[LucD]

If you have the VMware Tools running, you can use Invoke-VMScript.

$user = 'root'

$pswd = 'VMware1!'

$cred = New-Object -TypeName PSCredential -ArgumentList $user,(ConvertTo-SecureString -String $pswd -AsPlainText -Force)

$sInvoke = @{

    VM = 'photonps'

    ScriptText = 'chage -l root'

    ScriptType = 'bash'

    GuestCredential = $cred

}

Invoke-VMScript @sInvoke | Select -ExpandProperty ScriptOutput

[orbion]

LucD

i`m trying to run this on a Vcenter Server appliances and/or a Vrops appliance also....as far as i know can not install vmtools there...

also what i need to configure there is the password lenght

i.e. i used this command for ESXi

Get-VMHost | Get-AdvancedSetting -Name Security.PasswordQualityControl | Set-AdvancedSetting -Value "similar=deny retry=3 min=disabled,disabled,disabled,disabled,15"

not know what can i use to do this on VC nor VRops...

thx in advance!!!

[LucD]

The only other way you could this is through the OVF properties.

But for the appliance you mention, these settings are not exposed through the OVF properties.

Btw, on the VCSA appliance, the VMware Tools are builtin, they should be running.

Same for the vROPS Manager appliance afaik.