SDDC Manager bash history

Products

• VMware SDDC Manager

Issue/Introduction

Bash history is disabled on SDDC Manager.
Unable to up arrow to call prior command. 

Environment

VMware Cloud Foundation

Cause

Additional security hardening was implemented starting in VCF 4.3

Resolution

Option A: Set bash history for the SSH session.

set -o history

Option B: Disable the hardening policy globally for new sessions (You will have to run this after every upgrade of SDDC Manager)

mv /etc/profile.d/disable.history.sh /etc/profile.d/disable.history.sh.bak