Enable Active Directory Authentication for the Service Console
6 april 2009
AD-authentication in vCenter is quite straight-forward, but to use AD-authentication on the Service Console of an ESX-host, you have to take some extra steps. This is the procedure:
1. In the Service Console, use the command esxcfg-auth:
# esxcfg-auth –enablead –addomain=domain.local–addc=DC1.domain.local
2. For every user that you want to enable access through authentication to Active Directory, you must also create a corresponding user on the ESX Server system using the useradd command:
# useradd domainusername
You can now login to the Service Console with your AD-credentials!