Recovering the System Administrator Password

If you know the VMware Cloud Director database username and password, you can use the recover-password command of the cell management tool to recover the VMware Cloud Director system administrator password.

With the recover-password command of the cell management tool, a user who knows the VMware Cloud Director database username and password can recover the VMware Cloud Director system administrator password.

To recover the system administrator password, use a command line with the following form:

cell-management-tool recover-password options

Table 1. Cell Management Tool Options and Arguments, recover-password Subcommand

Option	Argument	Description
--help (-h)	None	Provides a summary of available commands in this category.
--dbuser	The user name of the VMware Cloud Director database user.	Must be supplied on the command line.
--dbpassword	The password of the VMware Cloud Director database user.	Prompted for if not supplied.