ESXI-06-000042 - The system must terminate shell services after a predetermined period.

Information

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

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_VMware_vSphere_6-0_ESXi_V1R5_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: SYSTEM AND COMMUNICATIONS PROTECTION

References: 800-53|SC-10, CAT|II, CCI|CCI-001133, Group-ID|V-63253, Rule-ID|SV-77743r1_rule, STIG-ID|ESXI-06-000042, Vuln-ID|V-63253

Plugin: VMware

Control ID: 67cdaa4848a1c2b11f2971129bce05eb39e3bca8967a275bc9abbb2d0783708d