edit sshd_config from freebsd8_rescue

[Norman Khine]

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.


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