Scaling out IDM cluster from one to three nodes fails on enabling root ssh login LCMVIDM73102

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

Scaling out an IDM cluster fails with LCMVIDM73102 while enabling root ssh login

Environment

IDM 3.3.7

Cause

Photon is configured to to prompt for the root users password instead of the sshuser password when sshuser runs sudo commands

LCM provides the sshuser password for the sudo prompt

This misalignment causes the sudo command to fail

Resolution

1. Make sshuser and root user password the same.

OR

1. Edit /etc/sudoers file to comment out the below line:
   1. Defaults rootpw