From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 21 18:50:54 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A38D37B40A for ; Wed, 21 May 2003 18:50:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dsl-mail.kamp.net (mail.kamp-dsl.de [195.62.99.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CBEA543FAF for ; Wed, 21 May 2003 18:50:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from me@farid-hajji.de) Received: (qmail 24045 invoked by uid 505); 22 May 2003 02:00:37 -0000 Received: from me@farid-hajji.de by dsl-mail by uid 502 with qmail-scanner-1.14 (spamassassin: 2.43. Clear:. Processed in 1.338374 secs); 22 May 2003 02:00:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO reverse-213-146-115-38.dialin.kamp-dsl.de) (213.146.115.38) by dsl-mail.kamp.net with SMTP; 22 May 2003 02:00:35 -0000 From: Farid Hajji To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 03:51:21 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200305220351.21887.me@farid-hajji.de> Subject: ssh and fixit CD? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: me@farid-hajji.de List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 May 2003 01:50:55 -0000 Hi, could someone please verify/confirm that ssh is useable from sysinstall's fixit mode (using the fixit CD)? The reason I'm asking this is as follows: 1. I'm dump(8)ing all filesystems (including /, /usr, ...) to a remote dumphost, piping dump's output via ssh and dd. 2. I'd like to be able to restore a root disk's filesystems (not only filesystems with production data) from the dumphost using the fixit mode and a mounted fixit CD. In 4.x, this doesn't work, because the random number generator doesn't get initialized (?). There may be issues with host keys initialization as well. Up until now, I could only restore a root disk (a.k.a / and /usr) by slipping the drive in a working box and restoring from there. I'm sure there is a better way, at least with a working ssh in fixit mode. Sorry, I should have verified this with 5.1-BETA CDs before posting, but I don't have the bandwidth to D/L them right now. Perhaps the problem is already fixed? Thanks, -FH. -- Farid Hajji -- Unix Systems and Network Management. http://www.farid-hajji.net/address.html Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore." --Edgar Allan Poe.