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

[Pascal Terjan]

On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 2:01 PM, Christiaan Welvaart
<cjw at daneel.dyndns.org> wrote:
> 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?

Yes, it seems my chroot was not enough of a real system for it to work