VMware OVF Tool password prompt does not take password correctly from prompted URL

Products

• VMware vCenter Server

Issue/Introduction

• When running OVF Tool with a vi://<vCenter_URL> containing a username only you will get prompted to enter password and authentication will fail after too many retries 
• The same password works when embedding it directly into vi//username@domain:password@vc_fqdn
• ovftool logs will show: 
  DEBUG OVFTool ##### [Originator@####="Default"] Connected to VI server version: 8.0.3
DEBUG OVFTool ##### [Originator@#### sub="Default"] Determine if server is a standalone host or vpxd
DEBUG OVFTool ##### [Originator@#### sub="Default"] VI API type: VirtualCenter
DEBUG OVFTool ##### [Originator@#### sub="Default"] Login to server based on username and password
DEBUG OVFTool ##### [Originator@#### sub="Default"] Setting VI connection message locale (via login) to:
DEBUG OVFTool ##### [Originator@#### sub="HttpConnectionPool-######"] LayeredHttpConnectionPool created. maxPoolConnections = 1; idleTimeout = 900000000 us; maxOpenConnections = 1; detectRemoteClose = true
INFO OVFTool ##### [Originator@#### sub="vmomi.soapStub[1]"] SOAP request returned HTTP failure; <SSL(<io_obj t:class Vmacore::System::TCPSocketObjectAsio, h:1536, <TCP '<ip> : 61581'>, <TCP '<ip> : 443'>>), /sdk>, method: login; code: 500(Internal Server Error); fault: (vim.fault.InvalidLogin) {
-->    faultCause = (vmodl.MethodFault) null,
-->    faultMessage = <unset>
-->    msg = "Received SOAP response fault from [<SSL(<io_obj t:class Vmacore::System::TCPSocketObjectAsio, h:1536, <TCP '<ip> : 61581'>, <TCP '<ip> : 443'>>), /sdk>]: login
--> Cannot complete login due to an incorrect user name or password."
--> }
DEBUG OVFTool ##### [Originator@#### sub="Default"] Destruction of ViConnection
DEBUG OVFTool ##### [Originator@#### sub="Default"] Getting username and password
DEBUG OVFTool ##### [Originator@#### sub="Default"] Exception thrown: struct boost::wrapexcept<class OvfToolException>(Login aborted)
--> [context]zKq7AVMEAQAAAAC6gwERT1ZGVG9vbAAA8Msndm1hY29yZS5kbGwAAAAXBwA+2QYAQVEBAZAFDW92ZnRvb2wuZXhlAAHnxQoBb1MLASDsCgGyrkICYEEAVkNSVU5USU1FMTQwXzEuZGxsAAJyJQADRkEKbnRkbGwuZGxsAAEzoA4BBaoOAVj3PwSwTAFLRVJORUwzMi5ETEwAA8vtBw==[/context]
DEBUG OVFTool ##### [Originator@#### sub="Default"] Backtrace:
--> [backtrace begin] product: VMware Workstation, version: 26.0.0, build: build-25410048, tag: OVFTool, cpu: x86_64, os: windows, buildType: release
--> backtrace[00] vmacore.dll[0x0027CBF0]
--> backtrace[01] vmacore.dll[0x00071700]
--> backtrace[02] vmacore.dll[0x0006D93E]
--> backtrace[03] vmacore.dll[0x00015141]
--> backtrace[04] ovftool.exe[0x000D0590]
--> backtrace[05] ovftool.exe[0x000AC5E7]
--> backtrace[06] ovftool.exe[0x000B536F]
--> backtrace[07] ovftool.exe[0x000AEC20]
--> backtrace[08] ovftool.exe[0x0042AEB2]
--> backtrace[09] VCRUNTIME140_1.dll[0x00004160]
--> backtrace[10] VCRUNTIME140_1.dll[0x00002572]
--> backtrace[11] ntdll.dll[0x000A4146]
--> backtrace[12] ovftool.exe[0x000EA033]
--> backtrace[13] ovftool.exe[0x000EAA05]
--> backtrace[14] ovftool.exe[0x003FF758]
--> backtrace[15] KERNEL32.DLL[0x00014CB0]
--> backtrace[16] ntdll.dll[0x0007EDCB]
--> [backtrace end]
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Environment

• VMware OVF Tool 5.1
• VMware vCenter Server 8.x 

Cause

This is caused by a regression bug in the OVF Tool code 

Resolution

Issue will be resolved in next release of VMware OVF Tool

 

Workaround: 

• Enter the password via embedded method
  vi//username@domain:password@vc_fqdn

Additional Information

Enable logging on VMware OVF Tool