[SOLVED] Force password change on VM console in VMware

BhushanPathak · 01-27-2015, 09:14 AM

Hello,

I have CentOS 6.5 deployed as a VM on VMware ESXi. I want to force user to force password change even when they use VMware's vSphere client to access the VM console.

I tried the following two commands -

Code:

chage -d 0 username

Code:

passwd -e username

These commands force password change only when we start a SSH session for that user, not if that user access the VM directly via the client console. How do I achieve a force password change even when it is accessed via the client console?

Thanks

Bhushan Pathak

unSpawn · 02-01-2015, 06:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by BhushanPathak

These commands force password change only when we start a SSH session for that user, not if that user access the VM directly via the client console.

When you start a SSH session you use the virtual machines PAM stack: find out what PAM stack a Vsphere client uses when it accesses the virtual machines console.

BhushanPathak · 02-02-2015, 11:42 PM

Thanks. I will look into it.