By: John Ozarchuk
You know… SSH is going away. It should be disabled by default, and you should be using the PowerCli. As a Linux/Unix guy though, I love SSH and don’t want to get it go.
View ArticleBy: Kyle Gleed
I would say vMA FastPass would be preferred over SSH. I’ve never seen/heard anything about SSH going away. SSH will likely stick around as long as we have the ESXi shell. There is no requirement to use...
View ArticleBy: angelo
VMA!! You really should only be ssh into an esxi host if something is blowing up. As someone said… -fastpass
View ArticleBy: Sergei
Thanks for the mention Kyle, but I can’t take credit for the “nifty syntax”, I found it somewhere long time ago while looking for a fast and reliable way to copy public key to remote host. I also agree...
View ArticleBy: teq
Hi, stupid question: I generated my public key file with puttygen on a Windows PC. How do load it into the /etc/ssh/keys/authorized_keys file? I tried using copy/past (i.e., open the public key file in...
View ArticleBy: Esa Varemo
Do the keys that are added to /etc/ssh/root.keys/ stay over reboots, or do I have to add it to a /bootbank/something.tgz?
View ArticleBy: Kyle Gleed
Yes, for stateful hosts the SSH keys persist across reboots. For stateless deployments you are limited to one key which you add using the Host Profile (Security and Services -> Security Settings...
View ArticleBy: Binh
According to Kyle Gleed’s instruction, I can enable password free ssh access on ESXi5.1, but can’t for non-root. I follow steps below trying to enable non-root ssh access on ESXi5.1 and persist my...
View ArticleBy: Binh
I made mistake with my post. The command line be corrected as below: cp -R /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/myStore/keys-no-root /etc/ssh
View ArticleBy: Jan Schermer
I hope some of you are not actually managing something linux-ish, the sheer amount of nonsense in this post is staggering :/ There is NOTHING wrong with using public-key authentication, while there is...
View ArticleBy: Brian
Not sure what I’m doing wrong – Using ESXi 5.1 U1, followed the instructions here, but when I then try to ssh in from another system, I still get prompted for a PW.
View ArticleBy: Mike
This is a very good article on SSH login without password. Here is another one that worked for me when I first started doing this. It’s very simple, concise and easy to understand....
View ArticleBy: Sergei
Thanks for the mention Kyle, but I can't take credit for the "nifty syntax", I found it somewhere long time ago while looking for a fast and reliable way to copy public key to remote host. I also agree...
View ArticleBy: teq
Hi, stupid question: I generated my public key file with puttygen on a Windows PC. How do load it into the /etc/ssh/keys/authorized_keys file? I tried using copy/past (i.e., open the public key file in...
View ArticleBy: Esa Varemo
Do the keys that are added to /etc/ssh/root.keys/ stay over reboots, or do I have to add it to a /bootbank/something.tgz?
View ArticleBy: Kyle Gleed
Yes, for stateful hosts the SSH keys persist across reboots. For stateless deployments you are limited to one key which you add using the Host Profile (Security and Services -> Security Settings...
View ArticleBy: Binh
According to Kyle Gleed’s instruction, I can enable password free ssh access on ESXi5.1, but can’t for non-root. I follow steps below trying to enable non-root ssh access on ESXi5.1 and persist my...
View ArticleBy: Binh
I made mistake with my post. The command line be corrected as below: cp -R /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/myStore/keys-no-root /etc/ssh
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