I recently tried upgrading vCenter server from 6.7u3i to 6.7u3m and it failed, this in itself doesn't surprise me as I've seen this so many times.
I rolled the snapshot back but my previous image now appeared out of sync and I was getting "Error 87" in /var/log/vmware/vmdird/vmdird-syslog.log , FYI "Error 87" is because the password string is too long, so I used /opt/likewise/bin/lwregshell to reset the password using
cd HKEY_THIS_MACHINE\services\vmdir\
set_value dcAccountPassword "shortpassword"
I then restarted vmdird which gets rid of the "Error 87" and I now get "Error 49" which is a password mismatch, understandable so I then use
/usr/lib/vmware-vmdir/bin/vdcadmintool
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Please enter account UPN : hostname.domain@domain.local
This should only produce a 20 character password but due to our password policy we have a minimum of 50 so the passwords I am getting are then too long again.
I have tried other methods of resetting the password including,
./dir-cli password reset --account hostname.domain@domain.local --login administrator
but I get an error 1326 from that, which I presume is something to do with vmdird not running correctly.
I've also tried with
./dir-cli computer password-reset
but that just produces a 50 character password as well.
I need to find out how I can change the default password length or maximum length back to 20 to get around this issue.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
