The request to change the admin password for Aria operations failed with error LCMVROPSYSTEM25130

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

• When attempting to change the Admin password ( Home > Environment >  Aria Operations > (⋮) > Change Admin Password ) for Aria Operations from VMware Aria Suite Lifecycle Manager (vRSLCM), the operation fails with an error message.
  
  Error Code: LCMVROPSYSTEM25130
Error while changing admin account password.
{"error_message_key":"security.new_password_matches_recent_ones","error_arguments":[],"error_message":"The
password specified has been used. Please choose a different password."}


  
  
• Additionally, the following message is observed in /var/log/vrlcm/vmware_vrlcm.log:
  
  

  com.vmware.vrealize.lcm.plugin. common. vrops.exceptions. PasswordResetException: {"error_message_key": "security.new_password_matches_recent_ones", "error_arguments": [],"error_message": "The password specified has been used. Please choose a different password."}

      at com.vmware.vrealize.lcm.plugin.core.vrops.tasks. SuperAdminPwdChangeTask.execute(SuperAdminPwdChangeTask.java:87)
    at com.vmware.vrealize.lcm.automata.core. TaskThread.run(TaskThread.java: 62)
    at java.base/java.util.concurrent. ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source)
    at java.base/java.util.concurrent. ThreadPoolExecutorSWorker.run(Unknown Source)
    at java.base/java.lang. Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Environment

Aria Operations 8.x
Aria Suite Lifecycle 8.x

Cause

This issue occurs because the new password entered is too similar to one of the previously used passwords. Aria Operations enforces password history policies to prevent reuse of recent passwords (by default, it remembers the last six)

Resolution

To resolve the issue, set a new password that does not match any of the previous six passwords used for the Admin account. This ensures that the password meets the password history requirements and allows the password change request to succeed