During the deployment of the VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 installer, you configure the password for both the root user and the local user. Usually, the wizard asks for specific users like root, admin, or audit, but in this case, it only asks for the “local user” password. When you look closer at the description of the local user password, you would realize that the password will be set for admin@local and vcf users. After installing the VCF Installer, the admin@local account will be used for logging into the web interface, and the vcf account will be used for SSH access to the VCF Installer.

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In this blog post, I explain how to reset the password of the admin@local user account on the VCF 9.0 Installer.
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