A file with user credentials is created in the CD-ROM unit for Windows saltstack configured virtual machines

Products

• VMware Aria Suite

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:

• Deploying a Salt stack configured Windows Virtual Machine in vCenter Server with usernamePassword authentication method for remoteAccess in Cloud Template, creates a file with user credentials in the CD-ROM unit of the Virtual Machine.

Environment

VMware vRealize Automation 8.x

Resolution

There is currently no resolution information available for the issue.

Workaround:

To workaround the issue you can leverage one of the following options:

1.  Use any key based authentication method: publicPrivateKey or generatedPublicPrivatekey for remoteAccess in Cloud Template.
2.  Automatically change the password on first logon: configure cloudbase-init to force the user to change the password at next logon, by adding to cloudbase-init.conf: first_logon_behaviour=alwaysThe process is covered in the documentation .
3. Manually change the password on first logon.
4. Leverage one of the extensibility components to run a custom script to unmount the cd-rom file once machines are deployed.