{"id":2883,"date":"2016-04-07T16:15:42","date_gmt":"2016-04-07T12:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/?p=2883"},"modified":"2016-04-07T16:17:39","modified_gmt":"2016-04-07T12:17:39","slug":"unable-to-login-to-vsphere-because-the-adminsystem-domain-password-cannot-be-reset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/infrastructure\/unable-to-login-to-vsphere-because-the-adminsystem-domain-password-cannot-be-reset\/","title":{"rendered":"Unable to login to vSphere because the admin@system-domain password cannot be reset"},"content":{"rendered":"

vSphere 5.1 has admin@system-domain<\/code> as the default admin account. vSphere 5.5 changes that to administrator@vsphere.local<\/code>. However, if you upgrade from 5.1 to 5.5 the default admin account remains admin@system-domain<\/code>. Which is fine and dandy until the password for this account expires. Then you are unable to reset or login! See below. :)<\/p>\n

Trying to login as usual<\/h2>\n

\"1<\/p>\n

Password has expired, needs a reset<\/h2>\n

\"2<\/p>\n

Reset fails though coz you can only reset for the vsphere.local domain<\/h2>\n

\"3<\/p>\n

Missed out on taking a screenshot but if you were to try and login with administrator@vsphere.local<\/code> instead you get an error that the credentials are invalid (because that account doesn’t exist!). So you are stuck!<\/p>\n

What do you do?<\/p>\n

Solution is to reset the admin password<\/h2>\n

When you do this vSphere automatically creates the administrator@vsphere.local<\/code> account. Follow the steps in this KB article<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"4<\/p>\n

Now you can login with administrator@vsphere.local<\/code> and the generated password.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

vSphere 5.1 has admin@system-domain as the default admin account. vSphere 5.5 changes that to administrator@vsphere.local. However, if you upgrade from 5.1 to 5.5 the default admin account remains admin@system-domain. Which is fine and dandy until the password for this account expires. Then you are unable to reset or login! See below. :) Trying to login … Continue reading Unable to login to vSphere because the admin@system-domain password cannot be reset<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[333],"tags":[193,184,124],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rakhesh.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}