2V0-622 · Question #23
Which password meets ESXi 6.x host password requirements?
The correct answer is A. 8kMVnn2x!. ESXi 6.x uses pam_passwdqc for password validation, which requires at least 7 characters and characters from at least 3 character classes, and specifically excludes a leading uppercase letter and a trailing digit from counting toward class diversity.
Question
Which password meets ESXi 6.x host password requirements?
Options
- A8kMVnn2x!
- BzNgtnJBA2
- CNvgt34kn44
- D!b74wr
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(26 responses)- A92% (24)
- B4% (1)
- D4% (1)
Why each option
ESXi 6.x uses pam_passwdqc for password validation, which requires at least 7 characters and characters from at least 3 character classes, and specifically excludes a leading uppercase letter and a trailing digit from counting toward class diversity.
8kMVnn2x! is 9 characters and contains four effective character classes - digit (8, 2), uppercase (M, V), lowercase (k, n, n, x), and special (!); because the first character is a digit rather than an uppercase letter, no class exclusion applies, and the password meets all ESXi 6.x pam_passwdqc requirements.
zNgtnJBA2 ends with a digit (2), which pam_passwdqc excludes from the digit class count, leaving only uppercase and lowercase as effective classes - two classes - which fails the three-class minimum enforced by the default min=disabled,disabled,disabled,7,7 policy.
Nvgt34kn44 starts with an uppercase letter (N), which pam_passwdqc excludes from the uppercase class count, and ends with a digit (4) that is also excluded, leaving only lowercase letters and interior digits as two effective classes, which fails the three-class minimum.
!b74wr is only 6 characters, which is below the ESXi 6.x minimum of 7 characters required by the pam_passwdqc default configuration, so it fails on length alone regardless of character class composition.
Concept tested: ESXi 6.x pam_passwdqc password complexity and class exclusion rules
Source: https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/6.7/com.vmware.vsphere.security.doc/GUID-DC96FFDB-F5F2-43EC-8C73-05ACDAE6BE43.html
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