*How to login to VMWare Infrastructure Web access without username and password

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When I am on the local machine I want to access the VMWare Infrastructure Web access without typing username and password.

The old gui console from the 1.x series could just connect locally without that.

Another solution would be if Firefox somehow stored the login, but somethng prevents it. The Firefox password manager does not work.

Edit: The accepted answer shows how to do it on windows host, see below. If you need to find the file on a linux host maybe this helps you:

/usr/lib/vmware/webAccess/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.16/webapps/ui/jslib-1.0.128374/modules/com.vmware.webaccess.app_1.0.0

This is the directory where the file WebAccess.properties lives on a Ubuntu 8.04 LTS host.

Best Answer

If you can find this file :

C:\Program Files (x86)\VMware\VMware Server\tomcat\webapps\ui\jslib-1.0.128374\modules\com.vmware.webaccess.app_1.0.0\WebAccess.properties

...edit it, and find the following lines (near the end of the file)

new Object({
   login_url: "http://localhost:8222/sdk",
   login_show_webservice_url: "false",
   login_name: "",
   login_password: ""
});

...and add your username and password - e.g. (username being myDomain\testUser, and password being P@ssword1)

new Object({
   login_url: "http://localhost:8222/sdk",
   login_show_webservice_url: "false",
   login_name: "myDomain\\testUser",
   login_password: "P@ssword1"
});

Note the double backslash...

HTH .. Ken

EDIT: Hmmm it seem like this may only work with IE (doesn't seem to work in FF3.5)

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