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Eelco Dolstra 0d506aa712 Provide a simple way to log into containers 
On the host, you can run

  $ socat unix:<path-to-container>/var/lib/login.socket -,echo=0,raw

to get a login prompt.  So this allows logging in even if the
container has no SSH access enabled.

You can also do

  $ socat unix:<path-to-container>/var/lib/root-shell.socket -

to get a plain root shell.  (This socket is only accessible by root,
obviously.)  This makes it easy to execute commands in the container,
e.g.

  $ echo reboot | socat unix:<path-to-container>/var/lib/root-shell.socket -
2014-03-17 14:10:47 +01:00
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doc nixos manual: make nixos options linkable 2014-03-08 19:34:28 +01:00
gui
lib Move generation of coverage reports from nixos/lib/testing to releaseTools 2014-03-03 13:57:08 +01:00
maintainers Add all AWS regions to EBS AMI creation script. 2014-02-11 13:26:46 +01:00
modules Provide a simple way to log into containers 2014-03-17 14:10:47 +01:00
tests remove users.jenkins config start on slave config. 2014-03-13 13:01:50 -07:00
COPYING
default.nix Fix nixos-option 2013-10-28 22:45:58 +01:00
README
release-combined.nix Disable efi tests again 2014-03-01 09:51:28 -05:00
release.nix Move generation of coverage reports from nixos/lib/testing to releaseTools 2014-03-03 13:57:08 +01:00

README 

*** NixOS ***

NixOS is a Linux distribution based on the purely functional package
management system Nix.  More information can be found at
http://nixos.org/nixos and in the manual in doc/manual.