When I initially configured my ESX 3 server I wanted to be able to login as a user configured with the same credentials as root. I created a user with UID 0 from the CLI but now I can't get rid of it. It says 'Access to perform this operation is denied'. I am assuming this is because as it has the same user level as root which is the top level no account has the authority to remove it.
Is there a way of getting around this to remove the account?
Hi,
you can't remove the user root, but you can create a second user with userid 0.
log into console :
useradd -u 0 -o
Andreas
This is what I have done, but how do I now remove this user? I get the error message that I mentioned in my previous post.
Hi
log into console :
userdel
Andreas
Great, worked a treat. Not sure why the VI Client interface was giving me grief, but I thought I remembered it giving me errors on the CLI as well.
Thanks, points awarded.