From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Jun 29 10:38:32 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FF1198F118 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 10:38:32 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from norman@khine.net) Received: from mail-oi0-f42.google.com (mail-oi0-f42.google.com [209.85.218.42]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7352619F5 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 10:38:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from norman@khine.net) Received: by oiyy130 with SMTP id y130so114818882oiy.0 for ; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 03:38:25 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=1aL4kbuvxqVnMErNw9HQS7r3nVYSGk/qcd4gWOSyxJQ=; b=OQD7cF9abI0gWy7dbdjf8c191OakurRPK1OO8Wnj2qKuvYA+j4UW6NsVXjBm1bLO84 m6b+wV6nAFajr/dgpr4ky46aNaCsLG1dM27nmJpNhKF1Usfv089O3gXz7+Ut1AY28g92 nE8j0jwRifsOSxC5+vSG/MgAxE4POJAfHoizO+JXUrdgptkqhhA8iKHNzHchNMAfeHTl Sq/fdMU9i8ijl8J3cON6YiMwwrj9aVKBMCxAuIEG6CLstT71UFFGLs7GiQ4Ioype4ECC qc63GnbEFNZjJJOFRaFfFfGcd/HnN6TBrugBEsmMTt+eSKh+VdBPomf1g5sLo6er0Qv9 YZ/Q== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnLwF2FbP9NPuVdnd7V6sKcXL2tN6DxDzG10VzISvyqFQGR4p+KmbHRBUKTpEJn1j1+OMog MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.202.223.9 with SMTP id w9mr12755270oig.14.1435574305442; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 03:38:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.76.173.69 with HTTP; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 03:38:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 11:38:25 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: edit sshd_config from freebsd8_rescue From: Norman Khine To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.20 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 10:38:32 -0000 Hello, I have a server running FreebSD8 from OVH, this had a problem, and I had to restart it in rescue mode. This is what I did so far: rescue-bsd# df -aTh Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on XX.XX.XX.XX:/home/pub/bsd-rescue8_64 nfs 1.9T 223G 1.6T 12% / devfs devfs 1.0k 1.0k 0B 100% /dev /dev/md0 ufs 29M 2M 24M 7% /etc /dev/md1 ufs 4.4M 20k 4.0M 0% /root /dev/md2 ufs 4.4M 302k 3.8M 7% /var procfs procfs 4.0k 4.0k 0B 100% /proc devfs devfs 1.0k 1.0k 0B 100% /var/named/dev /dev/md3 ufs 19M 14k 17M 0% /tmp rescue-bsd# gpart show => 63 156301425 ad6 MBR (74G) 63 156296322 1 freebsd [active] (74G) 156296385 5103 - free - (2.5M) => 0 156296322 ad6s1 BSD (74G) 0 20480000 1 freebsd-ufs (9.8G) 20480000 1048576 2 freebsd-swap (512M) 21528576 53895168 4 freebsd-ufs (25G) 75423744 8388608 5 freebsd-ufs (4.0G) 83812352 30720000 6 freebsd-ufs (14G) 114532352 41763970 7 freebsd-ufs (19G) => 63 156301425 ad4 MBR (74G) 63 156296322 1 freebsd [active] (74G) 156296385 5103 - free - (2.5M) => 0 156296322 ad4s1 BSD (74G) 0 20480000 1 freebsd-ufs (9.8G) 20480000 1048576 2 freebsd-swap (512M) 21528576 53895168 4 freebsd-ufs (25G) 75423744 8388608 5 freebsd-ufs (4.0G) 83812352 30720000 6 freebsd-ufs (14G) 114532352 41763970 7 freebsd-ufs (19G) rescue-bsd# mount /dev/ad4s1 /mnt rescue-bsd# vi /mnt/etc/ssh/sshd_config rescue-bsd# umount /mnt/ rescue-bsd# mount /dev/ad6s1 /mnt rescue-bsd# vi /mnt/etc/ssh/sshd_config rescue-bsd# umount /mnt/ rescue-bsd# reboot I have opened the ssh port and saved the file Then I reboot the server in normal mode, but none of the settings seem to have been saved on reboot! Do i have to chroot in order for these to work? I tried to chroot, but there is no vi in order to edit the file? Any advise much appreciated. -- %>>> "".join( [ {'*':'@','^':'.'}.get(c,None) or chr(97+(ord(c)-83)%26) for c in ",adym,*)&uzq^zqf" ] )