Feature request

[Tim Rice]

On Thu, 23 Jul 2015, Lars Bahner wrote:

> Hepp!
> 
> I am sitting in a remote country trying to reboot my server at home.
> Services are running, but the filesystem seems to be unreachable.
> I can ssh into the system, but when entering interactive mode,
> nothing happens and the session is terminated. Then I thought -
> what if sshd had builtins like bash, so that i could send a "reboot"
> command to the ssh daemon instead "ssh system /sbin/reboot"
> andd sshd could tell PID 1 to reboot.

With filesystem problems you may not be able to read/execute /sbin/reboot.

Use a public key to do wahat wou want. Something like this in
root's authorizd_keys file.

from="<your home machine>",command="/sbin/reboot",no-X11-forwarding,no-agent-forwarding <your key here>

> 
> There are, of course, a lot things to think about here, but I really
> think this would be a good thing to think about implementing. It
> sure would've helped me now.
> 

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Tim Rice				Multitalents
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