user accounts

Creating an SSH user account on VMware ESX hosts

By default, ESX hosts do not allow you to log in to the Service Console using the root user account via SSH. This is done for security purposes as the root account should generally not be used because it is a superuser account. It is possible to enable this by changing a configuration file, but this is not recommended. An alternative to this is to create a separate user account on the ESX Service Console that you could use to connect to it using SSH, and than use the su command (grants root privileges to a user) to elevate your privileges. To do this, follow the below steps:

1. First, create an account on the ESX host. This can be done in two ways, either by using the service console command line or by using the VMware Infrastructure Client (VI Client). To create an account using the command line, log into the ESX host as the root account and then type the following commands: Continued »