The Appliance was deployed more than 90 days ago with default settings. Logging in to the VAMI page of a vCenter (https://:5480) fails with the message “Exception in invoking authentication handler User password expired”
Login to the VCSA Appliance Shell (SSH or VM Console) is working.
Check password expiration
root@localhost [ ~ ]# chage -l root
You are required to change your password immediately (password expired)
chage: PAM: Authentication token is no longer valid; new one required
Change password
root@localhost [ ~ ]# passwd root
New password:
Retype new password:
passwd: password updated successfully
Change expiration – use it only for LABs …
root@localhost [ ~ ]# chage -M -1 root
Verify password expiration
root@localhost [ ~ ]# chage -l root
Last password change : Dec 21, 2021
Password expires : never
Password inactive : never
Account expires : never
Minimum number of days between password change : 0
Maximum number of days between password change : -1
Number of days of warning before password expires : 7
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