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    <title>topic ssh access with a service account defined in vcenter in ESXi Discussions</title>
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    <description>&lt;P&gt;Hi, I need some help understanding something.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;We have Rapid 7 and they are scanning our ESXi hosts with it.&amp;nbsp; We just got a whole new HCI setup and deployed it and they want to scan the ESXi nodes in it.&amp;nbsp; I wasn't involved in this in the old infra, so this is the first time I am configuring this.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;What I don't understand is that we define a service account for R7 to use... but the scan will not work unless we have the SSH server started and open...&amp;nbsp; This doesn't make sense to me as I thought the only way to allow SSH access to a server is to go thru and add a user at the ESXi user level and allow them SSH access... but this service account is only defined at the host level GUI... so how can it use SSH?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;thanks&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Bill&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2022 18:51:52 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>billdossett</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2022-06-27T18:51:52Z</dc:date>
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      <title>ssh access with a service account defined in vcenter</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/ssh-access-with-a-service-account-defined-in-vcenter/m-p/2916189#M282466</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hi, I need some help understanding something.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;We have Rapid 7 and they are scanning our ESXi hosts with it.&amp;nbsp; We just got a whole new HCI setup and deployed it and they want to scan the ESXi nodes in it.&amp;nbsp; I wasn't involved in this in the old infra, so this is the first time I am configuring this.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;What I don't understand is that we define a service account for R7 to use... but the scan will not work unless we have the SSH server started and open...&amp;nbsp; This doesn't make sense to me as I thought the only way to allow SSH access to a server is to go thru and add a user at the ESXi user level and allow them SSH access... but this service account is only defined at the host level GUI... so how can it use SSH?&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;thanks&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Bill&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2022 18:51:52 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>billdossett</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2022-06-27T18:51:52Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: ssh access with a service account defined in vcenter</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/ssh-access-with-a-service-account-defined-in-vcenter/m-p/2916333#M282491</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hi bill,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;i had a similar issue in the past.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;A customer had need a local ssh user on esxi hosts different from root&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;i resolved in this way:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;on every esxi (via https) with root credential, i created a user&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;I have given to this user the administrator permissions&amp;nbsp;&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;i started the ssh service&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;the user entered on the esxi host via ssh&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;warning: with read-only permission, the ssh access don't work!&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I hope this help you&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Bye&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Riccardo&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2022 12:18:37 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/ESXi-Discussions/ssh-access-with-a-service-account-defined-in-vcenter/m-p/2916333#M282491</guid>
      <dc:creator>kenobi79</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2022-06-28T12:18:37Z</dc:date>
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