On Thu, 23 Jul 2015, Lars Bahner wrote: > Hepp! > > I am sitting in a remote country trying to reboot my server at home. > Services are running, but the filesystem seems to be unreachable. > I can ssh into the system, but when entering interactive mode, nothing > happens and the session is terminated. Then I thought - what if sshd > had builtins like bash, so that i could send a "reboot" > command to the ssh daemon instead "ssh system /sbin/reboot" > andd sshd could tell PID 1 to reboot. Tim Rice then said: With filesystem problems you may not be able to read/execute /sbin/reboot. Use a public key to do wahat wou want. Something like this in root's authorizd_keys file. from="<your home machine>",command="/sbin/reboot",no-X11-forwarding,no-agent-forwarding <your key here> > > There are, of course, a lot things to think about here, but I really > think this would be a good thing to think about implementing. It sure > would've helped me now. > Of course, this presumes that he's logging in as root. If he's got a distro which disables root login, he's screwed, because he'd need to log in and sudo. _______________________________________________ openssh-unix-dev mailing list openssh-unix-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.mindrot.org/mailman/listinfo/openssh-unix-dev
