Grant shell access to this user on vSphere 6 onwards

[chris122686]

Hi Team,,

Have anyone already did create a settings similar to the once we have with version or vSphere 5.x to version of vSphere 6.x. Can someone please tell me how.

[larstr]

chris122686,

While it is possible to create local users on the ESXi host it's better to grant access to an Active Directory group that will get access to the ESXi host. For shell access, note that the ssh service is stopped by default in recent ESXi versions.

Using Active Directory to Manage ESXi Users

Lars