RE: Bootable CD problem

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Hi,

I think you should also mount the user's $HOME to the RAM disk.

Regard,
Zhang Erning

• -----Original Message----- From: Reid Johnson [mailto:rjohnson@vintacom.com] Sent: Friday, July 25, 2003 1:12 AM To: secureshell@securityfocus.com Subject: Bootable CD problem

 Hello,

        I am trying to build a CD bootable firewall with SSH support. The sshd on my source systems works great, but when mount my root system on the CD I can not login to system. When I attempt to ssh in I am prompted for a username and password, then I get a flashing cursor and that's it. I show a PID for the session and it is obvious that it is for the user I have logged in with. It is like I am not loading any of the environmental variables or a shell.

        The ISO I created for the cd is identical to the source system other than I mount a RAM disk for /etc, /var, and /root. I think this is a simple issue but unfortunately I have not been able to isolate it. Is there a file I need to write to in one of my read-only directories?

Do you need help?

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        I am running an LFS system with kernel version 2.4.20, and openssh version 3.6.1.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Reid

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Received on Fri Jul 25 00:01:33 2003