tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6059874241017858476.post9112225275571436405..comments2023-11-01T18:25:49.063+01:00Comments on VMware Front Experience: Undocumented parameters for ESXi 5.0 Active Directory integrationAndreas Peetzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12918778845056237847noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6059874241017858476.post-12558710543663056852012-01-27T14:40:41.734+01:002012-01-27T14:40:41.734+01:00Hi, Andreas, thank you for your response. I put my...Hi, Andreas, thank you for your response. I put my vote on the URL you provided.<br />So in the mean time, are you currently logging in with your AD acct, then su to obtain root?<br />I read somewhere that you can do sudo if you use vMA. Do you use vMA to do utilize sudo?NinjaDadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07555819394469780305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6059874241017858476.post-18079728591628551482012-01-26T20:55:21.267+01:002012-01-26T20:55:21.267+01:00Masa,
your observations are correct, and you are ...Masa,<br /><br />your observations are correct, and you are making a very good point here. You can use the 'su' command in the shell to switch to root, but this requires knowing and entering the root password which defeats the whole idea of AD integration. sudo should really be available in ESXi. Let's try to make this happen and vote for it here: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/344466<br /><br />Thanks<br />AndreasAndreas Peetzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12918778845056237847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6059874241017858476.post-85316267814714713592012-01-26T16:20:09.354+01:002012-01-26T16:20:09.354+01:00Hi, thank you for a great tip!
This may be a dumb...Hi, thank you for a great tip! <br />This may be a dumb question, but I do have a question about "obtaining root" using ESXi 5 and AD.<br /><br />In our previous ESX 4.1 environment, we had "sudo". We maintained /etc/sudoers to include ESX Admin group so that once we log in with our AD acct, we would run sudo su -, and obtain root.<br /><br />Currently, I am able to log in using my AD acct to the ESXi 5 hosts. My AD acct is part of ESX admin group. I am seeing that I should have the admin access to the host based on this configuration, however, I don't seem to be root on the system. For instance, I don't seem to be able to change the ownership of files in /opt.<br />How do you obtain root on the ESXi console using ssh? We don't have sudo on ESXi, do we??NinjaDadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07555819394469780305noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6059874241017858476.post-11648367958867052152012-01-14T14:12:55.510+01:002012-01-14T14:12:55.510+01:00One more great setting to add to a standard host p...One more great setting to add to a standard host profile.<br /><br />Thanks,<br />@dboftlpDBofTLPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01702081865165303483noreply@blogger.com