Local Esxi User Privilege

[shahb]

Hi,

We have issue with disk alignment. Our datastores are on NetApp. I created a local user on ESXi host and want to give the following permissions so user can :

1) SSH to ESXi Host

2) Run mbrtool to align the disk on the VMs.

I do not want to give administrator privileges to the user. So far I gave Virtual Machine - > Provisioning -> Allow Disk Access. I'm not if this is sufficient to run the mbralign tool and also I don't how to give SSH access to the local ESXi user.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Regards

[vuzzini]

Hello Shahb,

Did you try to launch vSphere client connection directly to ESXi host and select the tab Local Users & Groups. When adding a local user, there is an option to grant shell access to the local user. You may go through the video Grant Shell Access for VMware ESXi - YouTube . You must give VM create/edit access to this user on cluster level, please refer to the KB article http://kb.vmware.com/kb/2004087 for more information on running mbralign tool on ESXi.

[shahb]

Thanks for your quick response. Actually I did select that when I created user and still it didn't allow user to SSH to the host. I've attached the screenshot of create user screen.

Also /etc/security/access.conf shows hyphen instead of plus which some search on google mentioned it should plus to have shell access.

-:norma:ALL