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honda900
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ESX 3.5 update 2 build 110271

To All,

How do you enable SCP to the ESX 3.5i installation, noting that the firewall configuration is not able to be changed?

Regards

Chris

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Dave_Mishchenko
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Your post has been moved to the ESXi forum

Dave Mishchenko

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See this page - http://www.vm-help.com/esx/esx3i/ESXi_enable_SSH.php. After step 6 you might as well reboot as some people have reported that the services command may not restart the inetd process. You won't need to change the firewall.

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honda900
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Thanks Dave..

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guyrleech
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Or replace step 6 with two steps to tell the inetd daemon to reread the changed config file:

ps | grep inetd

Which will give a line like the following:

1291 1291 busybox inetd

Where the process id (pid) is the "1291" value so in this example you would then do:

kill -HUP 1291

whereupon ssh access should be granted without the need for a reboot

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nick_couchman
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Or...

kill -s SIGHUP 1291

Smiley Happy

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