Check password expiration date of ESXi root user.

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

This article provides commands to check password expiration date of ESXi root user.

Resolution

Execute command at ESXi SSH session.

ChangedDay=$(cat /etc/shadow | grep root | awk -F ":" '{print $3}') &&  MaxDays=$(cat /etc/shadow | grep root | awk -F ":" '{print $5}') && date -d "1970-01-01+$((($ChangedDay+$MaxDays-1)*24))"

For example:

Please note in the output, only expiration date is valid, the time isn't accurate.