Hmmm, this sounds like a useful addition. Could you post your steps, etc. to the Fedora Wiki? Cheers, Klaus > -----Original Message----- > From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list- > bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Guolin Cheng > Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 2:39 PM > To: Discussion list about Kickstart > Cc: centos@xxxxxxxxxx; kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: It works now -- RE: trying to run sshd daemon in > kickstartenvironment > > Hi, > > Thanks a lot for so many helpful responses. > > The fix is pretty straight: just mount /dev/pts again at the chrooted > %post environment where my original sshd fires up from. > > One command 'Mount -t devpts -o rw,gid=5,mode=620 devpts /dev/pts' or > just a bare 'mount /dev/pts' command fix the problem since the devpts > entry is in fstab already. > > I also hacked image stage2.img to include sshd daemon binary, libraries > and configuration files, and fire up the ssh daemon at the first line of > %pre script section. Then disable my original fired up sshd daemon at > %post section. > > Now kickstart environment is not 'dump' at all -- I can kick into and > monitor the kickstart clients any time and stop run-away kickstart > processes with 'reboot' command immediately should my home directory > server upgrade turn into a disaster. > > --Guolin > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Chris Edillon > Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 9:42 AM > To: Discussion list about Kickstart > Cc: centos@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: trying to run sshd daemon in kickstart environment > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
