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4 Enter a login, a user name, and a password.
NOTE Do not create a user named ALL. Privileges associated with the name ALL might not be available
to all users in some situations. For example, if a user named ALL has Administrator privileges, a user
with ReadOnly privileges might be able to log in to the host remotely. This is not the intended
behavior.
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Specifying the user name is optional.
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Create a password that meets the length and complexity requirements. The host checks for
password compliance using the default authentication plug-in, pam_passwdqc.so. If the password is
not compliant, the following error appears: A general system error occurred: passwd:
Authentication token manipulation error.
5 Click OK.
Remove a Local ESXi User from a Host
You can remove a local ESXi user from the host.
CAUTION Do not remove the root user.
If you remove a user from the host, they lose permissions to all objects on the host and cannot log in again.
NOTE Users who are logged in and are removed from the domain keep their host permissions until you
restart the host.
Procedure
1 Log in to ESXi using the vSphere Client.
2 Click the Local Users & Groups tab and click Users.
3 Right-click the user to remove and select Remove.
Do not remove the root user for any reason.
Sort, Export, and View Local ESXi Users
You can view, sort, and export lists of a host's local users to a file that is in HTML, XML, Microsoft Excel, or
CSV format.
Procedure
1 Log in to ESXi using the vSphere Client.
2 Click the Local Users & Groups tab and click Users .
3 Determine how to sort the table, and hide or show columns according to the information you want to
see in the exported file.
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To sort the table by any of the columns, click the column heading.
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To show or hide columns, right-click any of the column headings and select or deselect the name of
the column to hide.
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To show or hide columns, right-click any of the column headings and select or deselect the name of
the column to hide.
4 Right-click anywhere in the table and click Export List to open the Save As dialog box.
5 Select a path and enter a filename.
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