[Mageia-dev] starting openssh inside a chroot, as per mageia wiki

Thu Dec 27 12:17:42 CET 2012

On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 10:55 AM, Guillaume Rousse
+<guillomovitch at gmail.com> wrote:
+> Le 27/12/2012 11:29, Pascal Terjan a écrit :
+>
+>>> It seems like the systemd way of starting would be:
+>>> systemctl start openssh.service
+>>>
+>>> But, then produces an error:
+>>>
+>>> [root at localhost /]# systemctl start openssh.service
+>>> Running in chroot, ignoring request.
+>>>
+>>>
+>>> So,  Any thoughts on what is the recommended way, and I'll be happy to
+>>> update the wiki to reflect this.
+>>
+>>
+>> Last time I tried, I gave up after various attempts and now went back
+>> to the basics: running "sshd" and killing it to stop it.
+>> Maybe I'll fetch some old initscript.
+>
+> I guess using a specific unit file, using builtin systemd chroot support,
+> should help. See http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/changing-roots for
+> details.
+
+Yes having an unit outside of the chroot with
+RootDirectoryStartOnly=yes would probably help (I had tried the "full
+system" chroot and couldn't get it to work and gave up after an hour)
+but this is annoying to not be able to start a daemon from inside the
+chroot which is what I usually want to do.
+