Hi, I am not a member of this list. I searched the archives in vain, though I have a chellenging problem to solve. Hopefully, the task is already solved by someone, in this case I would welcome a site where the solution can be read about. Otherwise I would appreciate any other ideas.
I would like to make my computer able to start an ssh server from initrd. The main idea is that during bootup from initrd the partition comtaining the system is checked. If the fs is found inconsistent (e2fsck fails) ssh server is started, to give a means of maintainance from remote. I am using linux kernel version 2.4.26-386-1 for the test. Network is configured well, the machine can be pinged from remote. But when it comes to starting sshd it tells ---> Privilege separation user sshd does not exist though in /etc/passwd sshd is already added. For the creation of initrd image initrd-tools were used. mkinitrd was modified. Some useful binaries and scripts were added and symlinks were created to files that cannot be readonly (Eg. /var/run/sshd.pid). My linuxrc contains: ----------------------------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/sh export PATH=/sbin:/bin mount -nt proc proc proc root=$(cat proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev) mount -nt devfs devfs /devfs for module in ide-core ide-disk piix ide-detect ext3 jbd; do modprobe $module done ERROR=0 for part in part1 part3; do e2fsck -p /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0/$part || ERROR=1 done if [ $ERROR -eq 1 ]; then mount -nt tmpfs tmpfs /tmp touch /tmp/syslogd.pid touch /tmp/syslog /etc/sysklogd start modprobe e1000 mount -nt devpts devpts /dev/pts echo myhostname > /proc/sys/kernel/hostname touch /tmp/ifstate mkdir /tmp/if-up.d /tmp/if-down.d /tmp/if-post-down.d /tmp/if-pre-up.d /etc/network/networking start touch /tmp/inetd.pid /etc/inetd start mkdir /tmp/sshd touch /tmp/sshd.pid cp -a /etc/passwd.ro /tmp/passwd cp -a /etc/shadow.ro /tmp/shadow cp -a /etc/group.ro /tmp/group cp -a /etc/gshadow.ro /tmp/gshadow /etc/ssh/ssh start # just to get stopped /bin/sh for k in sshd syslogd inetd; do /usr/bin/killall $k done umount -n /devfs umount -n /dev/pts umount -n /tmp echo 256 > proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev mount -nt tmpfs tmpfs bin || mount -nt ramfs ramfs bin echo $root > bin/root else umount -n /devfs echo 256 > proc/sys/kernel/real-root-dev mount -nt tmpfs tmpfs bin || mount -nt ramfs ramfs bin echo 8451 > bin/root fi ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Thank you for your kind help in advance. Cheers, Jozsi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
