CentOS - May 2007 - RE: It works now -- RE: trying to run sshd daemon inkickstartenvironment

Steden and all,

 Sure, I'll find some time to document my steps in near future.

 Have fun.

--Guolin


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[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Steden Klaus
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 2:41 PM
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Subject: RE: It works now -- RE: trying to run sshd daemon
inkickstartenvironment


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 at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-
> bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Guolin Cheng
> Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 2:39 PM
> To: Discussion list about Kickstart
> Cc: centos at centos.org; kickstart-list at redhat.com
> 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 at redhat.com
> [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Chris Edillon
> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 9:42 AM
> To: Discussion list about Kickstart
> Cc: centos at centos.org
> 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
> 
> 
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