[Planetlab-users] setting sshd options

[David E. Eisenstat]

On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, Nikitas Liogkas wrote:

> Hi all! I was wondering if it is currently possible to set specific sshd 
> options (maybe on a per-slice basis?) on a PlanetLab machine. That is, I 
> would like to change some of the options in /etc/ssh/sshd_config on 
> regular Fedora boxes.

No. Currently all slice logins are dispatched through a single sshd 
instance running in the root slice.

> I can see neither /etc/ssh/sshd_config nor the sshd executable on my 
> slice (expected). Is there even a way to do this?
>
> P.S. It would be probably be OK to run my own ssh daemon on a different 
> port than 22, but I would like to avoid doing that if possible.

You can run your own sshd daemon on a different port inside your slice, 
but you have to install sshd yourself, since it's not part of the base 
slice image.

-David