ESXi 3.5 and SSH

ESXi 3.5 does ship with the ability to run SSH, but this is disabled by default (and is not supported). If you just need to access the console of ESXi, then you only need to perform steps 1 –

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Using vimsh

List information about a VM vimsh -n -e “vmsvc/getallvms” See a summary of the current host configuration vimsh -n -e “hostsvc/hostsummary” Enter maintence mode vimsh -n -e /hostsvc/mainten

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Patching ffmpeg into shape

Preface: unless otherwise noted, the bugs discussed here were found via fuzzing by Will Dormann of CERT — and my involvement was to fix them. In other news, I recently moved to work on the Ch

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vsftpd-2.2.0 released

Not much of interest to add beyond the interesting network isolation support previously discussed. Some minor bugs were fixed. A bunch of compile errors were addressed. There is now support for PAM

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