When trying to update vCSA through appliance management on port 5480 the update failed as it said the password had expired. This is a lab environment so is it possible to reuse the same password. Although I have done other things so far, running passwd as root user in the shell results in this when trying to reuse the old password:
This article didnt seem to help either www.boche.net/blog/2011/06/27/forc-a-simple-vmware-vma-password/
Following http://vcloud-lab.com/entries/vcenter-server/resetting-root-password-in-vmware-vcenter-server-applia... where everything is mounted, as root I followed this for guidance https://askubuntu.com/questions/113682/how-to-change-disable-password-complexity-test-when-changing-... . edit /etc/pam.d/system-password . I set minlen=6 to 1 (however this is prob redundant) which failed, then I also removed the enforce_for_root which then allowed me to use the desired password. Likely some of these steps are not necessary.
Hi @Gr4cchus
Can you check these articles maybe help
Authentication Token Manipulation Error
resetting-root-password-in-vmware-vcenter-server-appliance
Neither of these options sound like they are going to work as both have warnings in the article about the password and the dictionary it checks against. I think something was changed where somehow the password was originally grandfathered in and now im stuck trying to fight it.
Following http://vcloud-lab.com/entries/vcenter-server/resetting-root-password-in-vmware-vcenter-server-applia... where everything is mounted, as root I followed this for guidance https://askubuntu.com/questions/113682/how-to-change-disable-password-complexity-test-when-changing-... . edit /etc/pam.d/system-password . I set minlen=6 to 1 (however this is prob redundant) which failed, then I also removed the enforce_for_root which then allowed me to use the desired password. Likely some of these steps are not necessary.