So, you want to create another superuser for some reason in your ESXi host?. Not a problem.

Just follow my steps as I ve listed down below. Frankly, this is not s upported configuration by VMware and some may against this but let s forget other people s opinion. Before that, please bear in mind by following this method you will let your new user having the same permission as a root. poweruser.png Create new user with default UID from ESXi shell or SSH #userdel -g root -s /bin/sh -M abby Modify UID for user abby from xxx to 0 #vi /etc/passwd (u cannot do this via c lient) Set password for user abby #passwd abby Assign proper permission to user abby #vim-cmd vimsvc/auth/entity_permission_a dd vim.Folder:ha-folder-root abby false Admin true Put user abby under group root - Login vi-client as abby -> Local user n group > root property -> add user abby to group No need reboot and it s persistent As you can see, this user now have the same ability as root when login to DCUI, ESXi shell and client. ariyossss