Remote access via ssh with RedHat Rescue Disk

Insert Rescue Disk and boot server.
At the first prompt type “linux rescue” and hit enter.
Follow boot disk prompts to start networking. Enter the system’s ip address, netmask, gateway and name server.
Continue with prompts until the root partition is mounted and you get a command prompt.
Verify network configuration with ifconfig and route.
Use the following commands to start sshd:

cd /mnt/sysimage chroot /mnt/sysimage mount /dev/pts /sbin/service sshd start

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cd /mnt/sysimage
chroot /mnt/sysimage
mount /dev/pts
/sbin/service sshd start

You should now be able to SSH into the server.

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Wendell says:

July 6, 2009 at 3:02 pm

Thanks, this was very helpful. One small note for anyone who stumbles onto this in the future though:

/sbin/service ssh start

should be

/sbin/service sshd start

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admin says:

July 7, 2009 at 4:54 am

Good eye … correction has been made.

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NerdHerd says:

July 18, 2012 at 12:04 pm

awesomesauce, thanks for this… mount /dev/pts was the missing link in my equation

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