According to VMware’s KB articles they claim that this settings change is no longer needed when logging into VCSA Appliances in 6.5 – 7.0. However I am not 100% certain that that is true as, to be honest I always log in as root and have never had to do it. Do have some collegues who claim that they need to do this when they are using their AD Authenticated credentials.
While logged into vCenter as you not root account you will need to type (or copy and paste) this into your SSH session:
shell.set –enable True
In reality, you could also just log into the VAMI and start the BASH service there which I think is what I normally do anyway and thus why I have never had to run this command.
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