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 _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list at redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list