ESX4.1 SSH access for Active Directory User.

[kseniuk1]

I upgraded one of my test servers from 4.0 update 2 to ESX 4.1. I am trying to figure out how to configure SSH access for my Active Directory account. I have joined the host to active directory and granted my AD acount administrator permissions on the host. If I try and ssh to the host with my AD account I am getting access denied. I can connect via the vSphere Client with my AD account successfully. SSH works with a local account on the ESX4.1 server. I tried both with just my username at the SSH login as well as domain\username. Using domain\username actually hangs the host and I have to do a hard reset to get it back.

Anyone get this to work?

With 4.0 update 2 I used esxcfg-auth --enablead and then created a user with no password on the host. That command no longer exists on 4.1 though.

[chadwickking]

I haven't seen it anywhere yet. Please keep us posted.

Cheers,

Chad King

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[maishsk]

Patch has been released that should solve the issue

New Patch released - VMSA-2010-0016
Maish

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[Ultramar]

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