An administrator might need to change the default password and account policies by changing the default password expiration period of ninety days.

Prerequisites

  • Verify that you have root user credentials for the VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics appliance.

  • For more information about enabling the root user log in to the VMware Photon OS, see: https://vmware.github.io/Photon/assets/files/html/3.0/Photon_troubleshoot/permitting-root-login-with-ssh.html (This configuration is not necessary for the VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics appliance as by default it is configured to allow root user log in through SSH).

  • Verify that you can log in using root credentials to the VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics appliance console.

Procedure

  1. Open the Skyline Health Diagnostics appliance console using the VMware vSphere client or Secure Shell (SSH) client.
  2. Log in as root user.
  3. Navigate to folder by running the command cd /opt/vmware-shd/vmware-shd/app/apiserver/.
  4. Backup the current configuration file by running the command cp vmware-shd.conf vmware-shd.conf.back.
  5. Edit the configuration file using vim editor by running the command vim vmware-shd.conf.
  6. In vi editor, press the Insert key to switch to the edit mode.
  7. Change the value for the required field.
  8. To save and exit the editor, press Esc key and type :wq.
  9. Restart the services by running the systemctl restart vmware-shd command.