[SOLVED] pvestatd: failed to login due to an incorrect username or password

[acaronmd]

New 4-node PVE cluster setup, and I'm doing some basic configurations and checking under the hood... In System Log, I've noticed these messages are appearing quite frequently.

Aug 22 11:23:32 prox-node01 pvestatd[8361]: failed to login due to an incorrect username or password
Aug 22 11:23:43 prox-node01 pvestatd[8361]: failed to login due to an incorrect username or password
Aug 22 11:23:52 prox-node01 pvestatd[8361]: failed to login due to an incorrect username or password
Aug 22 11:24:03 prox-node01 pvestatd[8361]: failed to login due to an incorrect username or password
Aug 22 11:24:12 prox-node01 pvestatd[8361]: failed to login due to an incorrect username or password

I've looked around, and I've restarted and stop/start(ed) pvestatd, but it keeps coming back. This appears on all nodes.

Any hints?

 

[Impact]

It seems to be ESXi related. Please share cat /etc/pve/storage.cfg.

 

[acaronmd]

Ahhh that's it!

I've added our ESXi hosts for VM migration to Proxmox. For some reason, one of the ESXi host's password no longer works. Our threat scanner must've locked out the account... so I've removed it from storage.

Thank you!