How to Generate a Randomized Administrator Password

Products

• VMware Tanzu Application Service for VMs

Issue/Introduction

The BOSH Agent in 1200.7 now randomizes the password for the Administrator user, by default. If you need to set the password (i.e. for RDP), this article describes how to do so.

 

Environment

Resolution

The Windows Utilities Release contains a set_password job that sets the password for the default “Administrator” user on Windows VMs. There’s a known issue that prevents this from working on some public IaaS that is being addressed by the BOSH Windows team. In the meantime, an operator should use the web dashboard of the IaaS to create a user and set a password to get into a virtual machine (VM). For GCP, a user can use BOSH SSH to enter into a PowerShell session and re-enable the user called “Administrator.”

	PCF 1.10	PCF 1.11	PCF 1.12
vSphere	Deploy Windows Utilities Release and configure set_password job	Deploy Windows Utilities Release and configure set_password job	Set password in Runtime for Windows Tile (OpsMan UI)
AWS	Deploy Windows Utilities Release and configure set_password job	Deploy Windows Utilities Release and configure set_password job	Set password in Runtime for Windows Tile (OpsMan UI)
GCP	Create a user in the web UI	Create a user in the web UI	Create a user in the web UI
Azure	Create a user in the web UI	Create a user in the web UI	Create a user in the web UI