SSO login message is displayed with wrong formatting in vCenter 7.0.x when using ADFS as identity provider
Article ID: 326211
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Products
VMware vCenter Server
Issue/Introduction
Symptoms:
When configuring a login message in SSO while using ADFS as the identity provider, when showing the message in the login screen:
When configuring a login message in SSO while using ADFS as the identity provider, when showing the message in the login screen:
- the line spacing is too small, resulting in lines overlapping
- any slash ("/") character get a back slash ("\") put in front of it
Environment
VMware vCenter Server 7.0.x
Cause
This is caused by a code error in the handling of the login message.
Resolution
There currently is no resolution.
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Workaround:
As a workaround to prevent lines from overlapping (to ensure readability), format your login message with lines only as long that no automatic line breaks need to be inserted, and separate these lines with blank lines.
For example, instead of entering this:
use this:
For the additional back slash characters there is unfortunately no workaround as of now.
VMware engineering is aware of this issue. Please subscribe to this article to be informed when a fix is available.
Workaround:
As a workaround to prevent lines from overlapping (to ensure readability), format your login message with lines only as long that no automatic line breaks need to be inserted, and separate these lines with blank lines.
For example, instead of entering this:
To login, please use <username>@domain.name.tld or login directly using the URL https://server.domain.name.tld/ui/login/oauth2
use this:
To login, please use
<username>@domain.name.tld
or login directly using the URL
https://server.domain.name.tld/ui/login/oauth2
For the additional back slash characters there is unfortunately no workaround as of now.
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