I performed security hardening on an ESXi 5 host (test area), and I cannot figure out what portion of it is completing stopping the ESXi shell service to keep stopping. Lockdown mode is not enabled, the SSH service is running when I look at the GUI and when I F2 and login via the DCUI it shows that the "ESXi Shell is Enabled. Under that same area it shows "SSH is Enabled", and under the firewall, SSH server is checked and running.
I'm hoping someone knows exactly what it is, of course I changed some of the files sshd_config and such, but I don't if that is affecting this. This isn't causing an issue since it's just a test host, but I after going through all those pages, I just can't figure out what is stopping this.
I need to make a correction. When I log into the DCUI under "Troubleshooting Mode Options" even if I Enable ESXi Shell here, in a second or two, it gets set back to disabled.