Enabling SSH on ESXI

Sun, Jul 19, 2009

Misc

  1. On the console screen press ctrl+alt+f1
    console

  2. Type in unsupported then press enter and then type in your root password, You should know have a console window like the one below
    loggedin
  3. Run the following command 
    vi /etc/inetd.config

    Press the i key and then use the arrow keys until you come down to the line that beings with #ssh remove # then press the esc key followed by :wq

  4. Finally we need to restart inetd run ps aux | grep 'inetd' note down its pid then run kill -HUP pid
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