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ESXI-70-000042 - The ESXi host must terminate shell services after 10 minutes.

Information

When the ESXi Shell or Secure Shell (SSH) services are enabled on a host, they will run indefinitely. To avoid having these services left running, set the 'ESXiShellTimeOut'. The 'ESXiShellTimeOut' defines a window of time after which the ESXi Shell and SSH services will be stopped automatically.

Solution

From the vSphere Client, go to Hosts and Clusters.

Select the ESXi Host >> Configure >> System >> Advanced System Settings.

Click 'Edit'. Select the 'UserVars.ESXiShellTimeOut' value and configure it to '600'.

or

From a PowerCLI command prompt while connected to the ESXi host, run the following commands:

Get-VMHost | Get-AdvancedSetting -Name UserVars.ESXiShellTimeOut | Set-AdvancedSetting -Value 600

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_VMW_vSphere_7-0_Y25M04_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

References: 800-53|SC-10, CAT|II, CCI|CCI-001133, Rule-ID|SV-256406r970703_rule, STIG-ID|ESXI-70-000042, Vuln-ID|V-256406

Plugin: VMware

Control ID: 4f0fd7d12f0ad03cbe124cffae8fe39ad66053cec2dc7696e4524a940d1396c0