Provision fails with error "Cannot complete login due to an incorrect user name or password" using secrets in configuring vsphere.conf

[GajaHebbar]

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when secrets are used in vsphere.conf, pvc creation fails with error Cannot complete login due to an incorrect user name or password:

user should be able to create volume using secret,plain text username/password works for same cred:

** vsphere.conf

[Global] insecure-flag = 1 secret-name = "vcconf" secret-namespace = "default"

[VirtualCenter "10.133.44.92"] port = "443" datacenters = "Pune_Shared"

[Workspace] server = "10.133.44.92" datacenter = "**" default-datastore="" resourcepool-path="****" folder = "****"

[Disk] scsicontrollertype = pvscsi

[Network] public-network = "****"

vccredentials.yaml

apiVersion: v1 kind: Secret metadata: name: vcconf type: Opaque data: 10.133.44.92.username: ZmxleGt1YmVAdnNwaGVyZS5sb2NhbA== 10.133.44.92.password: QXZheWExMjM0NSM=

created secret kubectl create -f vccredentials.yaml --namespace=default

used echo -n 'password' | base64 to encode the username and password

kubectl describe secret vcconf

Name: vcconf Namespace: default Labels: Annotations:

Type: Opaque

Data

10.133.44.92.password: 11 bytes 10.133.44.92.username: 22 bytes

verified decoding the username and password, it matches the username and password.

but while creating pvc provision fails with above error, If the same user name and password is used in plain text, things are working. **:

Environment:

• Kubernetes version Server Version: version.Info{Major:"1", Minor:"11", GitVersion:"v1.11.3", GitCommit:"a4529464e4629c21224b3d52edfe0ea91b072862", GitTreeState:"clean", BuildDate:"2018-09-09T17:53:03Z", GoVersion:"go1.10.3", Compiler:"gc", Platform:"linux/amd64"}

• Cloud provider or hardware configuration: vcenter

• OS (e.g. from /etc/os-release): NAME="Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server" VERSION="7.4 (Maipo)" ID="rhel"

• Kernel Linux flexmaster191 3.10.0-693.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Jul 6 19:56:57 EDT 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[divyenpatel]

cc: @abrarshivani

[GajaHebbar]

@divyenpatel @abrarshivani any update/input on this issue?