vCloud Application Director: Darwin_User account Locked

If the darwin_user password is not working one reason can be that the account is been locked due to three failed login attempts, so in that case we will need to unlock the account.

We have to use VMRC (Virtual Machine Remote Console) because SSH is disable for the root account, login as root user.

 

To check the number of failed login attempts from the shell prompt.

faillog –u darwin_user

To unlock the locked account from the shell prompt

faillog  -u darwin_user –r

validate that the fail count is reset to zero.
faillog -u darwin_user

and if suppose you want to reset the password for the darwin_user

passwd darwin_user

type new password for the account and reconfirm it, now we can use the new password to login as darwin_user.



Thanks for reading........