Comments on: Dangerous default on ESX 4

By: michael

michael — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 14:37:47 +0000

4 months took vmware to release “critical” patch!

By: Forbes Guthrie

Forbes Guthrie — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:22:14 +0000

Yes you’re right, this only applies to ESX hosts not ESXi. Its a “feature” of the Service Console. The “unsupported” busybox implementation on ESXi is just a collection of unix tools.

By: Erik Scholten

Erik Scholten — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:53:56 +0000

I tried to find the values mentioned in the /etc/inittab but they’re not there. Is it correct that this does not apply to ESXi 4?

By: Ronald

Ronald — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 13:23:33 +0000

You would think this would be corrected in Update 1. Alas, I think VMware truly see it as a feature instead of a bug (where have I heard that before ).

By: Forbes Guthrie

Forbes Guthrie — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:47:19 +0000

Exactly!

By: Jim Ramsey

Jim Ramsey — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:00:43 +0000

This is actually a good practice in any shop with both Windows and Linux hosts. Windows IT people will press to login to a system. With screens blank and/or KVMs in use to save space, you may not be talking to the host you think you are talking to.

By: za_mkh

za_mkh — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:45:08 +0000

I experienced this on ESX 3.5 U4 servers too! Thanks for pointing out how to disable it … now doing this on our servers!

By: Mike Horwath

Mike Horwath — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:03:31 +0000

haha

Sorry, this is quite funny, and a little sad!

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uberVU - social comments — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:00:32 +0000

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