Re: [tlug] bootable linux with sshd

["Fergal Daly" <fergal@example.com>]

On 02/01/07, Gerald Naughton <naughton123@example.com> wrote:
> Fergal
> --- Fergal Daly <fergal@example.com> wrote:
>
> > Anyone know of a bootable linux distro that starts
> > up an sshd automatically?
> Install openssh
>  yum search ssh
>
>
> chkconfig sshd on
> will turn it on when booting up
>
> Look at
> http://the.earth.li/~sgtatham/putty/0.58/htmldoc/Chapter8.html
>
> Ensure Passwd is ok and then use keys

Sorry, I phrased my question badly. I'm looking for a live cd/usb disk
distro that is sshable by default.

The machine boots fine with sshd as is but has already done an "I'm
not booting up"-job, which I managed to get around with various
semi-random keypresses (ctrl-d and ctrl-alt-del, assuming it's gone
into fsck-me mode) and a couple of reboots. I have no idea what
actually happened as no logs were written during any of this.

This is not the sort of thing that I want to have to talk my Japanese
parents in law through. I want to say "put the cd/usb disk in, turn
off, turn on, thanks" and then I get in and fix it.

> >It's
> > for use when my TV box becomes unresponsive (as I'm
> > sure it will) and
> > is sitting waiting for someone to make it fsck or
> > whatever. There's
> > not even a monitor attached to this so it has to be
> > a case of "insert
> > the boot medium, reboot, walk away" for my
> > parents-in-law.
> Tell them to hit power on/off switch
> It is not healthy but only way that i can think of
> then when logged in via sshd do a fsck

That assumes the machine boots into multi-user mode and not into recovery mode,

F

> >
> > I don't really want to get into the hassle of
> > building my own image
> > (never tried before, can imagine it being a huge
> > time sink),
> >
> Happy new year
> g
>
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