Check password expiry for a specific vCenter SSO user

Products

• VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

Manually check password expiry for a specific vCenter SSO user

 

Environment

VMware vCenter Server 7.0.x, 8.0.x

Resolution

SSH to vCSA and use the dir-cli command to get password expiration details for the SSO user:

1. Log into vCenter as the root user

2. Run the command, and replacae user_name with the specific SSO user name

/usr/lib/vmware-vmafd/bin/dir-cli user find-by-name --account <user_name> --level 2

3. You may see output be like (for demo, a user "vmuser" has been created and used) :