Comments on: Change the root password in hosts and Host Profiles

By: NateC

NateC — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 22:21:33 +0000

In reply to LucD. Ty for the update, bummer as we have many Profiles to update.

By: LucD

LucD — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 21:23:58 +0000

In reply to NateC. Hi Nate, I'm afraid not. The structure of the HostProfile is undocumented afaik. I found the solution in this post via some reverse engineering, but it doesn't seem to work anymore in more recent releases.

By: NateC

NateC — Wed, 14 Dec 2022 20:56:12 +0000

Hi LucD,

Any update on using the host profile script to update password for Versions 6.7 and 7?

Thanks,

Nate

By: LucD

LucD — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 17:10:15 +0000

In reply to Dan. That is correct, CodeCapture leaves out all private methods and data. The version I published worked for that specific vSphere version. It took some reverse engineering to find out how it could be done. And I haven't looked if something similar is possible in more recent vSphere versions. Luc

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 17:01:17 +0000

LucD – I tried using VMware’s code capture to pull the necessary code to update a test host profile root password and it appears they purposefully leave out the password portion of the code. Do you have any tips on how to accomplish this now that your code is obsolete? I’m trying to create a script to automate root password changes in our environment which includes 30+ host profiles.

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 02 Sep 2021 17:52:50 +0000

In reply to Jessie Rogers. I'm wondering the same thing!

By: Jessie Rogers

Jessie Rogers — Thu, 04 Jun 2020 20:35:47 +0000

@LUCD

Just curious if you have had a chance to circle back to this with regards to a 6.7 Host Profile. Here is the error I am getting. I see that they did in fact change the objects behind the host profile and it appears that the objects stop at Security as shown in my error.

Exception setting “Security”: “Cannot convert the “System.Object[]” value of type “System.Object[]” to type “VMware.Vim.SecurityProfile”.”
At line:1 char:1
+ $pwordspec.ApplyProfile.Security = @($secpol)
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : NotSpecified: (:) [], SetValueInvocationException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : ExceptionWhenSetting

By: marui

marui — Wed, 13 Nov 2019 01:23:06 +0000

thank you!

By: LucD

LucD — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 14:01:37 +0000

In reply to Kane. I'm afraid they changed the objects behind HostProfiles. They can do that because these objects are not really documented, and my method was based on reverse engineering. I'll see if I can do the same for the latest version.

By: LucD

LucD — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 14:00:16 +0000

In reply to marui. Sorry, but I don't do Java, nor do I know anything about using the APIs from Java.