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How to enable the vcsa bash shell or appliance shell?


Asked by Simon McDaniel on Dec 11, 2021 Shell - An example of programming



1) Use putty any other ssh tool, Log in to the vCenter Server Appliance through SSH. 3) Type shell and press Enter. If you want bash to be automatically loaded after reboot follow next steps. SCP will also not work unless you go with next steps.
In respect to this,
1) Use putty any other ssh tool, Log in to the vCenter Server Appliance through SSH. 2) Run below command to enable access the Bash shell: shell.set --enabled true. 3) Type shell and press Enter. If you want bash to be automatically loaded after reboot follow next steps.
Likewise, The appliance shell can be used to update the VCSA, using the software-packages command and has some other use cases. When you log in for first time by default it shows appliance shell, below is the method to switching the vCenter Server Appliance 6.x to BASH Shell.
Subsequently,
Procedure 1 Access the appliance shell and log in as a user who has a super administrator role. The default user with a super administrator role is root. 2 If you want to enable the Bash shell access for other users, run the following command. shell.set --enabled true 3 To access the Bash shell run shell or pi shell.
One may also ask,
Log in to the Direct Console User Interface of the vCenter Server Appliance. Select Troubleshooting Options and press Enter. From the Troubleshooting Mode Options menu, select to enable either Bash shell or SSH. Press Enter to enable the service. Press Esc until you return to the main menu of the Direct Console User Interface.