Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Mar 2002 15:28:05 +0100 | From | Kurt Garloff <> | Subject | Re: ssh won't work from initial ram disk in 2.4.18 |
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On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 07:28:05AM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > I'm using a 2.4.18 kernel and ssh 3.0.2, and I'm trying to run ssh from the > initrd, and it's refusing to work. The exact same setup works booted from a > small partition, but if I take a tarball of that filesystem and dump it into > a ramdisk, ssh always fails to authenticate. (Public key or password, it > doesn't matter. When I run it from sh in initrd, it doesn't even prompt me > for a password, just prints out three failure messages and exits. The same > setup from /dev/hda1 works just fine...)
ssh tries to talk to your console. Which apparently has not yet been assigned / set up.
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