On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 10:54 -0700, Guolin Cheng wrote: > I tried to make kickstart environment a little bit more charming by > firing up openssh daemon in the limited environment. I edited/checked > a bunch of files and almost succeeded but still not. > > I can reach the machine to run a command like ‘ssh –x > <kickstartClient> <command>’ and it does work for %pre and both chroot > and non-chroot %post sections, in fact, you can run a command on > kickstartClient through ssh connections without problems. But it > still fails because I can not ssh into the kickstartClient to get a > local command shell. > > In short, ‘ssh –x <kickstartClient>’ fails, ‘ssh –x <kickstartClient> > <command>’ works. > > Any one has succeeded in this topic? Life will be much happier if we > can freely turn on/off sshd daemon for Kickstart environment. Thanks. you may need to force ssh to allocate a pseudo-tty, try "ssh -t -x <ksClient>". the -t option is described in the ssh manpage. chris