ESX 4/5 – Grant Root User SSH Access
for ESXi click here KB ID 0000278 Problem ESX is built on Linux – and in the Linux environment, to root user is denied SSH access, there are valid security reasons for this, and you can SSH to the ESX box as a normal user and then issue the “su -” command to switch to root access. However, some of us still want to SSH in as root, here’s how to do it. Solution 1. Create a user on your ESX Server (Ensure the...