I am configuring my hosts to use AD authentication. I created the ESX Admins AD group and put myself in it. I joined my hosts to AD successfully. I can connect directly to a host using the vsphere client and my AD credentials. I can also login to a host with my AD credentials in a putty SSH session. Here is the question/problem. After I log into the SSH session, i cannot do any admin functions, ie, run esxcli. If i do su-root then i am able to run esxcli.
Is this by design? Not sure i can see the purpose, other than logging of access, to what using AD authentication would get me.
Has anyone else seen this same "issue"?