{"id":311,"date":"2025-04-01T14:46:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T13:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vtom.uk\/?page_id=311"},"modified":"2025-04-01T14:46:25","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T13:46:25","slug":"esx-set-local-password","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vtom.uk\/index.php\/esx-set-local-password\/","title":{"rendered":"Esx &#8211; Set Local Password"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Using PowerCLI we can set a local password as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>$pword = &#91;System.Web.Security.Membership]::GeneratePassword(20,4)\n$esxcli = Get-EsxCli -VMHost esx07.vmware.vtom.uk -V2                                       $esxcli.system.account.add.Invoke(@{id=\"vTomadmin\";password=\"$pword\";passwordconfirmation=\"$pword\"})\n$esxcli.system.permission.set.Invoke(@{id=\"vTomadmin\";role=\"Admin\"})\nwrite-host \"Password set to $pword\"\n<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code><\/code><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using PowerCLI we can set a local password as follows:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-311","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vtom.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vtom.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vtom.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vtom.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vtom.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vtom.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":314,"href":"https:\/\/vtom.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/311\/revisions\/314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vtom.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}