{"id":706,"date":"2009-03-13T14:53:33","date_gmt":"2009-03-13T22:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/2009\/03\/13\/vmware-server-on-ubuntu\/"},"modified":"2009-03-13T14:54:53","modified_gmt":"2009-03-13T22:54:53","slug":"vmware-server-on-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curlybrace.com\/words\/2009\/03\/vmware-server-on-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Can’t Log in to VMware Server Console on Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"

As usual, I sped through the VMware Server installation, just using default settings. I then found myself unable to log in to the VMware Server Console. I would always get an error:<\/p>\n

You do not have permissions to login to the server.<\/tt><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Some searching turned up a solution which is to log in as root and set a password (root has no password by default on Ubuntu). This is an ugly solution, so I re-ran VMware Server configuration. That’s when I noticed this question:<\/p>\n

The current administrative user for VMware Server is 'root'. Would you like
\nto specify a different administrator? [no]<\/tt><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Answering yes<\/tt> allows you to specify the local account which will be administrator for VMware Server:<\/p>\n

Please specify the user whom you wish to be the VMware Server administrator
\n[root] fitzsimj<\/p>\n

Using fitzsimj as the VMware Server administrator.<\/tt><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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