Cannot ssh from jail

Tom Evans tevans.uk at googlemail.com
Thu Oct 4 01:20:30 PDT 2007


On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 10:17 +0200, Kim Attree wrote:
> LI Xin wrote:
> > Tom Evans wrote:
> >   
> >> Hi stable@, jail@ [jail@ plz cc me as I'm not subscribed]
> >>
> >> I'm having some problems setting up some jails for semi-isolated
> >> development (ie, so we can isolate the developers into a jail, give them
> >> all the root access they want, and not worry about them blowing up more
> >> than their own jail) on 6.2-RELEASE-p5.
> >>
> >> I have set up a jail, using ezjail, which appeared to work fine. I can
> >> start the jail, and use jexec to spawn a shell inside the jail. However,
> >> if I then try to ssh from the jail to another box, ssh fails with the
> >> error message (with -v):
> >>     
> >
> > I think the problem is that if you jexec into a jail then you don't have
> > a TTY at hand, so bad things would happen.  If you login into the jail
> > by some ways (e.g. by ssh or telnet or whatever that spawns a TTY for
> > you) then it would work I bet.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >   
> I had the same problem, setup SSHD in the jail, ssh'ed into that, and
> then from there got a TTY and could ssh to anywhere.
> 
> Li is right, with jexec you don't get allocated a TTY.
> 
> Laters,
> 
> Kim

Thanks guys, that works perfectly

Cheers

Tom
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