Feature request

[Darren Tucker]

On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Michael Stone <mstone at mathom.us> wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 10:42:03PM +0000, Lars Bahner wrote:
>
>> I appreciate all the answers, but none of addresses the issue of not being
>> able to address the filesystem.
>>
>
> Well, your best bet is physical access, the next best is an out of band
> console. Playing games with ssh builtin commands is just a waste of time if
> you can't rely on the filesystem.
>

And in fact sshd itself also relies on the filesystem because one of the
first things it does is reexec itself to get a new set of runtime
randomization such as ASLR.  You might get away with a broken disk if sshd
is still in the buffer cache but it's by no means guaranteed.

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