New subject: [SOLVED] Re: can't ssh into fedora lxc-container

25 Aug 2024


      Hi gurus,
I've installed f40 as an lxc container named FED.  Default image comes 
without an ssh server so I "dnf install openssh-server -y" followed by 
"systemctl start sshd".  It fails.  journalctl -xeu sshd shows this:
"FED (sshd)[636]: sshd.service: Referenced but unset environment 
variable evaluates to an empty string: OPTIONS"
Inspection of the sshd.service file shows these as part of the [Service] 
section:
EnvironmentFile=-/etc/sysconfig/sshd
ExecStart=/usr/sbin/sshd -D $OPTIONS
Apparently /etc/sysconfig/sshd is supposed to contain at least one named 
variable ( name appears to be unimportant ).  Searches showed the 
options name to be SSHD_OPTS, journalctl says it is looking for OPTIONS,
either work if declared correctly.
OPTIONS= fails because OPTIONS is null
OPTIONS='' works because it is defined but empty.
My question is: since the sshd.service file expects -D $OPTIONS 
shouldn't /etc/sysconfig/sshd define the OPTIONS variable ahead of time? 
  If the user wants to pass values via $OPTIONS they can do so of their 
own accord but the service should at least start without modification to 
sysconfig/sshd ( IMHO ).
Does this call for bugzilla?
Thanks,
Mike Wright