A small article to help you set password aging information for vCenter Server Appliance 6.0
The default expiry of vCenter Server Appliance root account password is 365 days. It can be set to desired value. Procedure is explained below.
Invoke vCenter Server Appliance 6.0 console
Press Alt+F3 – To get into command line
‘chage‘ is a general linux command to set aging information
Alt+F2 to switch back to console
You can use the ‘chage’ command on other VMware products as well which are available in form of linux appliances.
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