Comments on: How to enable ssh in vSphere 4i

By: sabur7

sabur7 — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:58:40 +0000

Update for ESXi 3.5 Update 2 – With Update 2 the service.sh command no longer restarts the inetd process which enables SSH access. You can either restart your host or run ps | grep inetd to determine the process ID for the inetd process. The output of the command will be something like 1299 1299 busybox inetd, and the process ID is 1299. Then run kill -HUP (kill -HUP 1299 in this example) and you’ll then be able to access the host via SSH.

By: craig

craig — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 10:13:18 +0000

is xinetd.conf
I think you can search with /ssh when you vi the config file

By: elaheh

elaheh — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 09:35:42 +0000

mmm…
i don’t have inetd.conf file.what config file you mean?where must i search for SSH parameter?
sorry if ask in this way.i’m beginner in it.

By: craig

craig — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:02:51 +0000

should work on this anyway, did u see the ssh parameter in the config file?

By: elaheh

elaheh — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:11:43 +0000

thanks,but i don’t have /etc/inetd.conf . I have xinetd.conf and initd.conf , but not inetd.conf.
please help me?what must I do?

By: Douglas Hubler

Douglas Hubler — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 18:14:11 +0000

services restart didn’t seem to make ssh access available, but i rebooted the system and then i was able to get in