Installation guide

C H A P T E R 5 Using the VMware Service Console
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Enabling Users to View Virtual Machines
Through the VMware Remote Console
The default security setting for ESX Server is that users must have read (r) and execute
(x) access permissions to connect a remote console to a virtual machine. However, if
you want to allow access to users with only read permissions, you can do so with the
following global configuration setting:
authd.policy.allowRCForRead = “TRUE”
Add the preceding line to the /etc/vmware/config file. This setting allows users
with only read permissions to connect to a virtual machine through the remote
console.
Note: This configuration setting affects all virtual machines on an ESX Server
machine. You cannot change this setting for individual virtual machines.