VMWare permissions

[daveinvb]

I'm attempting to monitor VMWare hosts. I've successfully installed the VMWare wizard and it works when I use the ESXi root credentials. Unfortunately, it stores the credentials in plain text in a file named *auth.txt. Storing root credentials like that is a huge security vulnerability. I created a read-only user in vCenter and I'm able to log in and view everything on the hosts, but Nagios gives me an error "ESX3 CRITICAL - Error: Cannot complete login due to an incorrect user name or password". So what are the required permissions for this to work because root is a no-go?

[tmcdonald]

Are there any special characters in the password? Normally this is not an issue if they are stored in an auth file, but things like ! and $ have special meanings in CLI environments which may be causing issues.

[daveinvb]

Yes, there are special characters because they are required by the password policy. I have changed it from ! to @ with no luck.

[ssax]

Did you try wrapping the password in single quotes?

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'yourp@ss'