ESXi Shell for the host has been enabled warning
Posted by Alan McBurney on September 23, 2011
So I have just spun up a new vSphere 5 install on my home lab.
One of the first things I wanted to do was fix the certificate error by replacing the default certificate with a one from my internal PKI.
The only way I can see to do this is via the shell. Shell access is disabled by default so the first thing to do was enable Shell access.
To enable shell access I went to the Configuration tab on the host and drilled down to Software – Security Profiles and enabled the ESXi Shell to Start and stop with host
I now have shell access enabled but I now also have a warning message on the host complaining about configuration issues and that ESXi Shell access has been enabled.
To disable the warning its simply a matter of going back to the Configuration tab on the host then – Software – Advanced Settings – uservars and changing the UserVars.SupressShellWarning to 1
mickrussom said
This shuts off the warning with a commanline one-liner
esxcfg-advcfg -s 1 /UserVars/SuppressShellWarning