Networking and Systems Administration
Enabling vCenter SSH access from Web User Interface 1. Log in to WebUI 2. On the vSphere Web Client Home page, click System Configuration. 3. Under System Configuration, click Nodes. 4. Under Nodes, select a node and click the Manage tab. 5. Under Common, select Access and click Edit. (I already had SSH enabled) 6. Check the box for SSH and click OK to save the settings.
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When I spin up a VM in the cloud like Vultr or Digital Ocean, I get root access. On the other hand, in AWS and Azure, I am stuck in a user account. Security and best practices aside, this is an inconsistency from a developer standpoint. I find that I need to log in with root access over SSH to my Ubuntu systems sometimes, and this is disabled in most cases. If you need to log in to root over SSH, here’s how: Edit the file:
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/etc/ssh/sshd_config |
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PermitRootLogin prohibit-password |
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I find myself stuck in situations where I can’t really leave or close my shell session, but I have to go somewhere else, disconnect my internet, or otherwise lose shell access for some reason or another and unable to get back where I left off. Things like this happen sometimes, right? Or is it just me? The solution for this is screen Overview of Screen: Screen is a full-screen window manager that multiplexes a physical terminal between several processes, typically interactive shells. Each virtual terminal provides the functions of the DEC…
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