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• Password ESXi 5 aging/expiration

  There are many things here on ESX, but nothing about ESX 'i '.

  "Any person: what is the default expiration for the password to root on ESXi 5" and "is it possible to change?

  THX.

  I'm not aware of a default password on the root account's expiration date.

  That said, a security option is to activate the lock mode. The administration is limited to access vCenter and root via the DCUI. The DCUI may then be more limited to personnel with access to the network management out-of-band (or disabled entirely) and/or a physical access to the hardware.

• Change of password ESXi ILO of bulk

  Hello people,

  Our Department of security require me to change our ESXi ILO 150 password. Is it possible through PowerCliScript.

  Any help on this will be appreciated.

  Thank you

  vmguy

  Sorry, that was the bad download page...

  You can for instance here HP lights-out configuration utility:

  http://h20000.www2.HP.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/SoftwareDescription.jsp?swItem=MTX-aaf40a6c32534b2e8ecddd369e

• Change of password ESXi 4

  I just install ESXi v4 and trying to change the password to the "console", I get an error related to a change of password failed. There is also language about the meeting of complexity, but the installation is fresh and no configuration changes were made that info server IP. I tried simple and complex passwords, but the system does not accept everything. Everyone knows this?

  Thanks for the replies.

  confirmed by the Installation Guide.  It might be useful

  > If your administrative password contains special characters, such as $ or &, you must include a forward slash reverse escape

  > (\) character before each special character.

  http://www.VMware.com/PDF/vSphere4/R40/vsp_40_esxi_i_vc_setup_guide.PDF

• SSH without password ESXi for Linux

  Someone knows how to do it successfully SSH of ESXi for Linux?  The following link describes the steps to get SSH working PuTTY or an external orifice to ESXi.  I tried to reverse the steps a bit to make it work on the other hand, but it doesn't seem to work.

  http://communities.VMware.com/docs/doc-8890

  Thank you.

  In this, it's kinda funny.  Dropbear has the ability to create a pair of valid keys, but theres no real binary ssh in ESXi.  However, you can get there.

  (1) ' create' a ssh a symbolic link to dropbear: ln-s/sbin/dropbearmulti/bin/ssh

  (2) create a key pair: dropbearkey - dss f privatekeyfile - taha 1024. You'll find yourself with a file in the current directory, called "privatekeyfile" and the system will display a public key SSH format on the screen:

  ~ # dropbearkey - dss private f TS 1024
  Will display 1024-bit dss secret key "Private".
  Generate keys, this can take some time...
  Part of public key is:
  SSH - dss AAAAB3NzaC1kc3MAAACBAJbXscSKNxkxs3NYfMgMLs8tsh3iio9vFN3fzq8/5HrsgcGK3gHc + SQlLmhtP... hostname. Domain
  Copy all lines of this from "ssh - dss" through the end of 'hostname.domain"in your Clipboard.
  (3) add this public key copied to your host Linux at the right place - usually ~/.ssh/authorized_keys:
  linuxhost % cat .ssh/authorized_keys

  SSH - dss AAAAB3NzaC1kc3MAAACBANPYWCXvqAVK95Xa0qM1rUPM7h2CWB85d2Qk3paYsRU6x...
  (4) now use the private key to ensure that it works in ESXi:
  ~ # ssh-i privatekeyfile [email protected]

  Last login: kills Apr 12 15:01:15 the domain.lan 2011

  [user@host] (Linux 2.6.18 - 194.26.1.el5)

  %

  Life is good!

• PowerCLI get 5.5 ESXi local account by connecting to vCenter

  Hello

  I need to create a weekly report for the local accounts on the ESXi 5.5 servers.  ESXi all have a unique password that is stored in a secure database and is not scripted to to access the password; ESXi locking mode also.  What is the best way to generate a list of local accounts ESXi?  All ESXi are managed by vCenter.

  Thank you

  Asim

  If you have no way to do a Connect-VIServer to ESXi lymph?

• Linux for ESXi host hash

  Hi all

  I wonder if the hash of password linux can be used as a hash of password ESXi?

  Comment please if someone has done this or have an idea of the approach to this subject.

  Thank you

  Yes, there is currently a bug of security ESX(I) 4.1 (ESX and ESXi) and the encryption of password of pam_unix module uses "A" versus "MD5". Front of vSphere 4.1, MD5 was the default and apparently something changed which caused his default a weaker encryption algorithm.

  VMware KB article was finally produced by VMware after a member of the community identified this security hole. Here's a blog article I wrote which provides more information - http://www.virtuallyghetto.com/2010/07/esxi-41-major-security-issue.html

  If you enable md5, then you can certainly copy the hash of/etc/shadow to your ESXi host, even if I think you're just trying to get the password is encrypted using md5 versus which is solved by editing just the pam module as described in the article.

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• ESXi host does not have the full connection due to an incorrect user name or password.

  Hello

  I need to provide the username and password while reconnecting Esxi host, but with the lines below, I can't succeed. Help, please.

  Game-VMHost-connected state - VMHost 10.50.56.151,10.50.56.65,10.50.56.107,10.50.56.168 | Game-VMHostAuthentication - root username - password "trustno1" - $false JoinDomain

  Thanks LucD., however, I tested is the only way to connect back the vmhost to vcenter. I have not found any cmdlet.

• With regard to the ESXi password

  How to reset the password to the ESXi if I forgot.

  Hello

  You cannot reset the password, need to go to the new installation, please consult the KB

  Change root password forgotten on an ESX/ESXi host (1317898)

• VMware ESXi 5.5 and HP ML310e gen8 v2 lose the license and the password after restart

  I've updated my HP Proliant server with the latest drivers and I have the BIOS version is here: VMware Compatibility Guide: search system

  but after I entered my license in vSphere and adding a virtual machine to the host, where I am restart I lose the license, the password to connect to the host (his game empty) and all virtual machines (I have to add them manually and fix the network, because it is also reset to the default setting).

  Any ideas why is this happing? I'm doing something wrong?

  Other info: I have 2 hard drives put in a logical drive (Raid 1) and VmWare log does not work without saying anything...

  Hello

  is it a stand alone esx host? If yes try asking another key on the wmare site

  hp custom image you used to install the esxi?  If not download the latest version of the hp site or vmware and perform a new installation or level and keep the data store.

  also update the firmware of the hp for the later levels site

• ESXi 5.1 password reset

  Hello

  I have a few servers connected to a single server vcenter, but now I need to connect to the server not by vcenter. I don't remember password. Is possible to retrieve or reset the password for vcenter

  Any help with this would be great.

  Once you have joined the ESXi hosts to the field, only members of the group "Admins ESX" have default permissions.

  André

• Help, I changed the password of root ESXi via powerCli, now I can not connect with the web client or the console.

  Help, I've changed the root ESXi via powerCli password, now I can not connect with the web client or the console, but I can still connect to powerCli. The command I used was;

  SE connect-VIServer esxihostname-user root - password newpasswd

  This production network btw, I have connected to each host and run the above command, these ESXi hosts are not on a domain

  y at - it something I have left out. I really appreciate any assistance that you people can provide.

  Thank you, Joe

  It is probably a longshot, but a lot of things in the land of windows is not sensitive to capital letters as Unix is.  I wonder if your new password you put through powerCLI mixed uppercase in it and if the capitalization was abandoned by command windows powerCLI Analyzer, or he interpreted as all capitals or something.   If you can still get through the powerCLI you could try to reset the password again to something simple without capitalization mixed case and if your password on ESXi strategy requires a special character, try something different than a "$", like a "_" (I find that a '_' is less likely than some other special characters (, as a '-' or a ' / ' to cause problems with analyzers.).

  Edit:

  Another thing, you can try before playing with the password once again, is to create a different username ESXi using powerCLI and see if the password ends up what you think, it should be, and if you can get with the client vsphere using it.  In this way, you can find out if there are some problems with certain characters or Cap through command powerCLI Analyzer without losing your remaining root by powerCLI access.  After some tests, you can understand what went wrong with your initial password change and may be able to fix it with less risk of losing access.  I also assume that you can not create a new username on ESXi who is able to change the root password no matter what authority give you it, otherwise, you could create a new username with PowerCLI, then connect to the client vsphere with it and change the password to root from there.

• How to extract the selected ESXi host user name and the password in the web client of vSphere?

  Hi all.

  I'm developing a plug-in for the web client to vsphere. I want to communicate with the selected host of ESXi in my Java Service Layer and who needs the host user name and password.

  I don't know how to search the Flex user interface layer.

  ESXi credentials are not stored in the user interface layer, you must use the vSphere SDK Web Service on the coast of java.  See vim.host.ConnectInfo.

• Change the password for root to an ESXi host

  Hello

  I need help to get a script VCO that change password for root to an ESXi host.

  In PowerCLI is the Set-VMHostAccount cmdlet. I searched in VCO API... I have not found or something similar.

  I found the object of VcHostAccountSpec but seems it only works with "Host Profiles" and my licenses are Standard and Enterprise.

  http://www.VMware.com/support/Orchestrator/doc/vco_vsphere51_api/HTML/VcHostAccountSpec.html

  Any idea?

  Thanks, Roberto

  Another option would be to connect to the ESXi host with vCO plugin SSH and run the command "passwd" remotely. Haven't tried, but in theory, it should work.

  @Tim - we try to keep the compatibility of the existing whenever possible plug-ins vCO so PowerShell module should work with the latest vCO relies.

• Where is the ESXi local password length policy defined? (n00b question)

  How you can view or modify the rules of complexity of password for local accounts of ESXi?

  Thank you

  p.

  Hey pavel - has,

  Here is a KB article that gives you all the information you need about changing password rules in ESXi.