The ESXi host must not suppress warnings that the local or remote shell sessions are enabled.

Severity	Group ID	Group Title	Version	Rule ID	Date	STIG Version
medium	V-256432	SRG-OS-000480-VMM-002000	ESXI-70-000079	SV-256432r959010_rule	2025-02-11	1

Description
Warnings that local or remote shell sessions are enabled alert administrators to activity they may not be aware of and need to investigate.

ℹ️ Check
From the vSphere Client, go to Hosts and Clusters. Select the ESXi Host >> Configure >> System >> Advanced System Settings. Select the "UserVars.SuppressShellWarning" value and verify it is set to "0". or From a PowerCLI command prompt while connected to the ESXi host, run the following command: Get-VMHost \| Get-AdvancedSetting -Name UserVars.SuppressShellWarning If the "UserVars.SuppressShellWarning" setting is not set to "0" or the setting does not exist, this is a finding.

ℹ️ Check

From the vSphere Client, go to Hosts and Clusters. Select the ESXi Host >> Configure >> System >> Advanced System Settings. Select the "UserVars.SuppressShellWarning" value and verify it is set to "0". or From a PowerCLI command prompt while connected to the ESXi host, run the following command: Get-VMHost | Get-AdvancedSetting -Name UserVars.SuppressShellWarning If the "UserVars.SuppressShellWarning" setting is not set to "0" or the setting does not exist, this is a finding.

✔️ Fix
From the vSphere Client, go to Hosts and Clusters. Select the ESXi Host >> Configure >> System >> Advanced System Settings. Click "Edit". Select the "UserVars.SuppressShellWarning" value and set it to "0". or From a PowerCLI command prompt while connected to the ESXi host, run the following command: Get-VMHost \| Get-AdvancedSetting -Name UserVars.SuppressShellWarning \| Set-AdvancedSetting -Value "0"

✔️ Fix

From the vSphere Client, go to Hosts and Clusters. Select the ESXi Host >> Configure >> System >> Advanced System Settings. Click "Edit". Select the "UserVars.SuppressShellWarning" value and set it to "0". or From a PowerCLI command prompt while connected to the ESXi host, run the following command: Get-VMHost | Get-AdvancedSetting -Name UserVars.SuppressShellWarning | Set-AdvancedSetting -Value "0"