ESXi shell works after being disabled

[lvaibhavt]

Hi All,

I have an esxi 5.5 in my home lab and esxi shell was disabled on it. I tried alt + f1 but it will not give me the login prompt. (this is a known behavior)

I enabled esxi shell and it gave me a prompt to enter username and password. I entered the credentials and then I was able to access the shell locally from the esxi server. Now the question is once I have disabled the esxi shell -- if I hit alt + f1 then also it lets work on it.

I am unable to understand if the esxi shell is disabled (previously it was enabled) then why it will let me work on the DCUI console? any suggestions

Thanks

Vaibhav

[peetz · Accepted solution]

Hi Vaibhav,

disabling the local ESXi shell will not terminate a session that is already logged in at the console. It will only prevent new logins.

With remote SSH sessions the behavior is the same: Existing ssh session will continue to run after you disable the SSH shell.

Regards

Andreas

[nash097]

Did you close the existing session and re open it after you disabled the ESXi shell? Does it still work?

[Nithy07cs055]

this is because the  session which you used to disable the shell might not have been disconnected, make sure you come out of the DCUI and login back , you wont get the shell prompt 

[lvaibhavt]

Hi All,

Thank you all for replying I had to type exit on the command line in shell. Then when it was disabled then it did not allowed to me logon again.

Thanks again

Vaibhav