Authorized Keys and ESXi 6.0 Update 2 – Changes to OpenSSH

William Lam brought up some feedback on Socialcast the other day. The story was of a customer who updated to ESXi 6.0 Update 2 and the SSH keys he was using no longer worked. The customer was advocating for changing the file /etc/sshd_config so that he could continue to use the keys on his ESXi …

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Two Factor Authentication for vSphere – RSA SecurID – Part 2

Introduction In Part 1 of Two Factor Authentication for vSphere – RSA SecurID, we configured RSA Authentication Manager to get it ready for adding the PSC as an Authentication Manager agent. In this post, we’ll configure the Platform Services Controller (PSC) itself by uploading the sdconf.rec file and running the appropriate CLI commands to enable …

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Two Factor Authentication for vSphere – RSA SecurID – Part 1

Introduction This is Part 1 of a 2 part blog series. In this post we’ll talk about setting up RSA SecurID Authentication Manager, some architectural assumptions and what you’ll need to take with you to Part 2. Two Factor Authentication Two factor authentication (2FA) has become ubiquitous nowadays. For those of you still in the …

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