vCenter UI does not reflect the correct user status for localos users

Products

• VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

vCenter UI does not reflect the correct user status for localos users.

The Localos users are displayed in the vSphere UI - Administration -- Users and Groups -- Domain -- localos. However, they are neither created nor managed from this page.

The user status is also not reflected correctly.

Environment

VMware vCenter Server 7.x

VMware vCenter Server 8.x

Cause

This is a bug and the UI should not be referred for the localos user status. Additionally, the support for use of localos accounts as an identity source is deprecated from vCenter 7U3c release. VMware plans to discontinue support for use of the local operating system as an identity source.

This functionality will be removed in a future release of vSphere.

Resolution

The localos users are managed from the appliance shell of the VCSA. 

If the default login of the root user is changed to bash, invoke the appliance shell by running the below command in the vCenter.

/bin/appliancesh

Managing Local User Accounts in vCenter Server

 

Use the below command to obtain the correct status of the user:

localaccounts.user.list

 

Additional Information

Failed to change password for created localos user on vCenter GUI 8.0U3