Guest Auth Manager Validate Credentials In Guest

Guest Auth Manager Validate Credentials In Guest

Validates the GuestAuthentication credentials.

This can be used to check the authentication data, or validate any authentication that has a timeout is still valid. If the authentication is not valid, GuestPermissionDenied will be thrown.

Request
URI
POST
https://{api_host}/sdk/vim25/{release}/GuestAuthManager/{moId}/ValidateCredentialsInGuest
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Path Parameters
string
moId
Required

The unique identifier for the managed object to which the method attaches; the serialized managed object reference for a request has the form moType/moId, in this case GuestAuthManager/{moId}.

string
release
Required

The vSphere release schema. The current specification covers vSphere 9.0.0.0 APIs.

Request Body
ValidateCredentialsInGuestRequestType of type(s) application/json
Required 
"ValidateCredentialsInGuestRequestType Object"
vm
Required

MoRef of the VM to perform the operation on.

Required privileges: VirtualMachine.GuestOperations.Query

auth
Required

The guest authentication data. See GuestAuthentication.

Authentication
This operation uses the following authentication methods.
Responses
204

No Content

Operation doesn't return any data structure

500

GuestOperationsFault: if there is an error processing a guest operation.

GuestOperationsUnavailable: if the VM agent for guest operations is not running.

InvalidPowerState: if the VM is not powered on.

InvalidState: if the operation cannot be performed because of the virtual machine's current state.

TaskInProgress: if the virtual machine is busy.

GuestComponentsOutOfDate: if the guest agent is too old to support the operation.

OperationNotSupportedByGuest: if the operation is not supported by the guest OS.

OperationDisabledByGuest: if the operation is not enabled due to guest agent configuration.

InvalidGuestLogin: if the the guest authentication information was not accepted.

Returns VimFault of type(s) application/json
This response body class contains all of the following: InlineVimFault0 
"VimFault Object"

Code Samples
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                    curl -X POST -H 'Authorization: <value>' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '[{}]' https://{api_host}/sdk/vim25/{release}/GuestAuthManager/{moId}/ValidateCredentialsInGuest
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