Changed AD password, now knife vphere plugin fails

Chef Infra (archive)
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I use the knife vsphere plugin to clone VMware templates to new VMs with Chef. It has been working well for some time and I have created a lot of new VMs with it. Recently I changed my AD password, and now the knife vsphere plugin fails with any command I give it. For example:

$ knife vsphere hosts list
ERROR: RbVmomi::Fault: InvalidLogin: Cannot complete login due to an incorrect user name or password.

I am using PKI keys instead of passwords in my knife.rb file. Here's the relevant contents of my knife.rb:

user_name = ENV['USER'] || ENV['USERNAME']
node_name user_name
client_key "#{ENV['HOME']}/.chef/#{user_name}.pem"
validation_client_name "#{org_name}-validator"
validation_key "#{current_dir}/nonexist"

I tried generating a new client_key and replacing my username.pem file, but it still fails.

What am I missing?

Thanks,
Dave

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You also need knife-vsphere specific credentials in your knife.rb for knife vsphere to work, and replacing your Chef credentials has no impact on the vSphere login info…

Nathan Clemons
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Doh! How did I miss that?? It's been a while since I set this up, and I forgot about the whole

knife[:vsphere_host] = "< host >"
knife[:vsphere_user] = "< username >"
knife[:vsphere_pass] = "< password >"

section of knife.rb. If I had looked down the bottom of the file it would have been staring me in the face. Oh well. Thanks for the reminder. It's working now.

Dave