topic Re: Configure Service Account Utility for Portal for ArcGIS - Unable to change Service Account in ArcGIS Enterprise Questions

Configure Service Account Utility for Portal for ArcGIS - Unable to change Service Account

PaulMcCord — Wed, 01 May 2019 13:17:15 GMT

I'm setting up a base deployment of ArcGIS Enterprise. In setting up Portal for ArcGIS, I initially established a local account for the service account. I'd now like to change this to a domain account with a more difficult password. I'm using the configuresergiceaccount utility to do this, but when I execute the command, I receive a message that part of my password "was unexpected at this time."

Below is what the command looks like. Note that this is not the actual password that I'm trying to change to, but it does reflect the difficulty level:

C:\Program Files\ArcGIS\Portal\tools\ConfigUtility>configureserviceaccount --username waynecounty\gissandbox --password J1I[f!M*M.+Td/+N(N)}V+f$;%FZzvRRt

When I execute the command, I receive the message "}V+f$ was unexpected at this time".

Is the issue that I'm changing from a local account to a domain account or is it possibly an issue with my password? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Re: Configure Service Account Utility for Portal for ArcGIS - Unable to change Service Account

MichaelSchoelen — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 17:04:40 GMT

That would be a problem with your password using a restricted character that command line interprets as a command. You might see similar errors when using passwords with restricted characters in Active Directory integration as well.

This password chould be changed to one without command-line special characters.

These work well:

!$#

This generator can make a password that fits the bill.

Or:

Place the password in quotes, like Jonathan Quinn mentions below!

Re: Configure Service Account Utility for Portal for ArcGIS - Unable to change Service Account

JonathanQuinn — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 18:33:59 GMT

"}V+f$ was unexpected at this time" means the command prompt is seeing }V+f$ as a separate argument, which means the character preceding } needs to be escaped, the parenthesis:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/270977/what-characters-are-required-to-be-escaped-in-command-line-arguments

You need to quote the password so it's seen as a single string:

If you can create the account using the password manually, it should work within the configureserviceaccount.bat utility.