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Resetting the VCF Operations Fleet Manager admin@local Password

  • Writer: Brock Peterson
    Brock Peterson
  • 5 days ago
  • 1 min read

I borked the admin@local password on my VCF Operations Fleet Manager, so had to reset it. Found this KB which got me going.


root@vcfops-bpeterson [ /opt/vmware/share/vami ]# ./vami-vlcm-passwd-reset
Enter new password: 
Confirm Password: 
retrying--- count for get password: 1. Sleeping for 10 seconds
retrying--- count for get password: 2. Sleeping for 10 seconds
retrying--- count for get password: 3. Sleeping for 10 seconds

As you can see, that didn't work. Since I don't have SDDC Manager running in this lab I couldn't use Fleet Management - Passwords to reset it either. Looking around, I found that I needed to run the following before resetting my admin@local password.


touch /var/lib/vrlcm/ENABLE_PWD_RETRIEVAL

Now back to resetting the admin@local password.


root@vcfops-bpeterson [ /opt/vmware/share/vami ]# ./vami-vlcm-passwd-reset
Enter new password: 
Confirm Password: 
------------------------------------------------
Updating password for admin@local
password updated sucessfully

Hope this helps!


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