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Table Of Contents
- Platform Services Controller Administration
- Contents
- About Platform Services Controller Administration
- Getting Started with Platform Services Controller
- vCenter Server and Platform Services Controller Deployment Types
- Deployment Topologies with External Platform Services Controller Instances and High Availability
- Understanding vSphere Domains, Domain Names, and Sites
- Platform Services Controller Capabilities
- Managing Platform Services Controller Services
- Managing the Platform Services Controller Appliance
- vSphere Authentication with vCenter Single Sign-On
- Understanding vCenter Single Sign-On
- Configuring vCenter Single Sign-On Identity Sources
- Understanding vCenter Server Two-Factor Authentication
- Using vCenter Single Sign-On as the Identity Provider for Another Service Provider
- Security Token Service STS
- Managing vCenter Single Sign-On Policies
- Managing vCenter Single Sign-On Users and Groups
- Add vCenter Single Sign-On Users
- Disable and Enable vCenter Single Sign-On Users
- Delete a vCenter Single Sign-On User
- Edit a vCenter Single Sign-On User
- Add a vCenter Single Sign-On Group
- Add Members to a vCenter Single Sign-On Group
- Remove Members from a vCenter Single Sign-On Group
- Delete vCenter Single Sign-On Solution Users
- Change Your vCenter Single Sign-On Password
- vCenter Single Sign-On Security Best Practices
- vSphere Security Certificates
- Certificate Requirements for Different Solution Paths
- Certificate Management Overview
- Managing Certificates with the vSphere Client
- Managing Certificates from the vSphere Web Client
- Managing Certificates with the vSphere Certificate Manager Utility
- Certificate Manager Options and the Workflows in This Document
- Regenerate a New VMCA Root Certificate and Replace All Certificates
- Make VMCA an Intermediate Certificate Authority (Certificate Manager)
- Generate CSR with vSphere Certificate Manager and Prepare Root Certificate (Intermediate CA)
- Replace VMCA Root Certificate with Custom Signing Certificate and Replace All Certificates
- Replace Machine SSL Certificate with VMCA Certificate (Intermediate CA)
- Replace Solution User Certificates with VMCA Certificates (Intermediate CA)
- Replace All Certificates with Custom Certificate (Certificate Manager)
- Revert Last Performed Operation by Republishing Old Certificates
- Reset All Certificates
- Manual Certificate Replacement
- Managing Services and Certificates with CLI Commands
- Troubleshooting Platform Services Controller
- Determining the Cause of a Lookup Service Error
- Unable to Log In Using Active Directory Domain Authentication
- vCenter Server Login Fails Because the User Account Is Locked
- VMware Directory Service Replication Can Take a Long Time
- Export a Platform Services Controller Support Bundle
- Platform Services Controller Service Logs Reference
The services associated with the solution user no longer have access to vCenter Server and cannot
function as vCenter Server services.
Change Your vCenter Single Sign-On Password
Users in the local domain, vsphere.local by default, can change their vCenter Single Sign-On passwords
from a Web interface. Users in other domains change their passwords following the rules for that domain.
The vCenter Single Sign-On lockout policy determines when your password expires. By default, vCenter
Single Sign-On user passwords expire after 90 days, but administrator passwords such as the password
for administrator@vsphere.local do not expire. vCenter Single Sign-On management interfaces show a
warning when your password is about to expire.
Note You can change a password only if it is not expired.
If the password is expired, the administrator of the local domain, administrator@vsphere.local by default,
can reset the password by using the dir-cli password reset command. Only members of the
Administrator group for the vCenter Single Sign-On domain can reset passwords.
Procedure
1 Log in with the vSphere Client to the vCenter Server connected to the Platform Services Controller.
2 Specify the user name and password for administrator@vsphere.local or another member of the
vCenter Single Sign-On Administrators group.
If you specified a different domain during installation, log in as administrator@mydomain.
3 In the upper navigation pane, to the right of the Help menu, click your user name to pull down the
menu.
As an alternative, you can select Single Sign On > Users and Groups and select Edit User from
the vertical ellipsis menu.
4 Select Change Password and type your current password.
5 Type a new password and confirm it.
The password must conform to the password policy.
6 Click OK.
vCenter Single Sign-On Security Best Practices
Follow vCenter Single Sign-On security best practices to protect your vSphere environment.
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