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Latest revision as of 22:31, 16 June 2009

To enable SSH for ESXi

  1. First, login to console by pressing Ctrl-Alt-F1
  2. Type in unsupported and press enter.
  3. You should now see a warning from the vmWare technical support team.
  4. Login as root and enter your root password.
  5. You should now have a root linux hash ( # )
  6. Edit /etc/inetd.conf by using vi /etc/inetd.conf
  7. Scroll down until you see the ssh section and remove the comments in front of SSH(remove the # signs.)
  8. Save the file
  9. and finally, reboot

You have now sucessfully enabled ssh.