Anyone who says ssh should be disabled is misinformed. ssh should be secured but enabled, and this mitigation is just one of the reasons why. Start by gaining access to your vCenter VCSA with SSH. Run the commands in the first image below, you can use Putty cut & paste to insert filenames: Here is
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I recently went looking for information on password security for the VCSA 6.0 & 6.5 and ESXi 6.0 & 6.5. Most specifically, I was interest in the number of passwords remembered, so I could define that in documentation for a client. Try as I might, I couldn’t find documentation for VCSA number of passwords remembered
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For the last 10 to 15 years, I have been in and out of Data Centers of all types. I’ve also had the privilege of working in many different capacities, from corporate IT pawn, to the guy running the project. During this time I have had the privilege of working with and learning from some
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