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SSO Admin password reset with ssopass – SslHandshakeFailed – vSphere 5.1
Written by Sam McGeown on 5/11/2013
Published under <a class="" href="/category/vmware">VMware</a> and <a class="" href="/category/vsphere">vSphere</a>

Today I found out that in vSphere 5.1 the SSO administrator account (admin@system-domain) has a password that expires after 365 days. See KB2035864:

vCenter Single Sign-On account (SSO) passwords expire after 365 days, including the password for admin@system-domain.

Awesome.

In vSphere 5.5 it gets even better – the password expires every 90 days by default! (See the vSphere 5.5 SSO documentation)

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