Enable SSH on VMWARE ESXi

To enable SSH on VMWare ESXi, do the following:

1. At the console, press Alt + F1
   
2. Type "unsupported" and press enter (Note, you will be doing this blindly)
3. You will be prompted for the root password, enter it.
4. vi /etc/inetd.conf
5. Go to the line for ssh (try "/ssh" to find it)
6. Uncomment the ssh line (if the cursor is over the #, hit "x")
7. Save the file ("wq!")
8. Restart the services ("/sbin/services.sh restart")

You should now be able to ssh in as root to the server.

There is a chance that you will have to restart inetd in order for this to work:

# get the PID of inetd
ps a | grep inetd
kill -HUP inetdpid