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

Thu Dec 27 15:01:10 CET 2012

On Thu, 27 Dec 2012, Pascal Terjan wrote:
+
+> 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)
+
+Do you mean with systemd-nspawn?
+
+
+     Christiaan
+