[sles-beta] Beta 5 and VMware-tools

[Joe Doupnik]

     Ah so, our spring time SSL entertainment situation. Good on your 
security team for jumping on this even deep in SLES.
     Joe D.

On 22/04/2014 14:11, Uwe Drechsel wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 22, Joe Doupnik wrote:
>
>>      Returning to this particular VMware-tools item today.
>>      Two points.
>>      1. The ESXi v5.5 provided VMware tools will not install. The
>> selected o/s type was other 64-bit.
>>      2. The third party open-vm-tools item is installed but not
>> activated. Much searching high and low for what to do. Finally I
>> found rcvmtoolsd hidden away. That did no good. Resort to YaST,
>> Services, find the item, ENABLE it (why, for gosh sakes, cannot the
>> rc script accept enable/disable as command verbs?), start it. Now
>> ESXi is happier.
> It intentionally was not enabled per default in Beta 5. Now after an
> audit by the sec team, we have green light to enable it in Beta 6.
>
> Thanks
> Uwe
>
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