Password Rotation of all VMware Cloud Foundation Service Accounts using a script

Products

• VMware Cloud Foundation
• VMware Cloud Foundation 5.x
• VMware SDDC Manager

Issue/Introduction

Rotate the passwords used for all of the VMware Cloud Foundation service accounts using a script.

Environment

VMware Cloud Foundation 5.x

Resolution

1. Download the attached rotate_all_svc_accounts.sh script.
2. Edit the script in notepad and change the below details as per your environment

   USERNAME=<SSO_USERNAME>
   PASSWORD="<SSO_PASSWORD"
   SDDC_MGR_IP=<SDDC_MANAGER_IP>

3. Transfer the script to SDDC Manager /home/vcf directory using WinSCP
4. SSH to SDDC Manager with vcf user and su to root
5. Change the file permission and ownership

   chmod +x /home/vcf/rotate_all_svc_accounts.sh
   chown root:root /home/vcf/rotate_all_svc_accounts.sh

6. Browse to /home/vcf directory

   cd /home/vcf

7. Execute the script

   ./rotate_all_svc_accounts.sh

8. Monitor the progress in SDDC Manager UI taskbar