SSH access to the console of an ESXi system is disabled by default as it is considered an ‘unsupported’ feature. To enable it, there are just a few simple steps: At the ESXi console, hit ALT-F1 to change to the console window Type in the word ‘unsupported’ and enter. You will not see anything echoed
AIX can be integrated in to Active Directory in two ways: via Samba’s winbind directly as a Windows machine, and indirectly via LDAP. The winbind configuration was already covered in a previous posting and worked rather well. However, because of GE’s requirements, it was not possible to utilize the winbind method for Active Directory integration.
By default, AIX 5.3 has a user name length limitation of 8 characters, regardless of the back end authentication mechanism. To confirm this, run: getconf LOGIN_NAME_MAX or lsattr -El sys0 -a max_logname To set the size limitation to a new (higher) value, run (where # is the new maximum user name length): chdev -l sys0