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ESXI-06-000042 - The system must terminate shell services after a predetermined period.
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When the ESXi Shell or 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 automatically be terminated.Solution
From the vSphere Client select the ESXi Host and go to Configuration >> Advanced Settings. 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
http://iasecontent.disa.mil/stigs/zip/U_VMware_vSphere_6-0_ESXi_V1R4_STIG.zip
Item Details
Audit Name: DISA STIG VMware vSphere 6.x ESXi v1r4
Category: ACCESS CONTROL
References: 800-53|AC-12, CAT|II, CCI|CCI-001133, Group-ID|V-63253, Rule-ID|SV-77743r1_rule, STIG-ID|ESXI-06-000042
Plugin: VMware
Control ID: c68e0d5997ed3e1c5aadd77cbf8b5dfc750cb6d45dcc41540d233a276d7349d2