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How to setup an ssh server within a docker container

s1ntaxe770r on May 26, 2020

In this post I will walk you through my process of setting up ssh access to your docker container. Why run an ssh server within a contai...

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driftuazartur • Jan 14 '21

Thanks, useful

Namah Shrestha • Feb 17 '23

For those of you who are trying to login with root creds. The user needs to be test and the password is test as well.
After creating the container hit: ssh test@ -p then hit test as the password.

David Kassa • Nov 20 '20

Thank you so much!

Alexander Sidko • Jan 8 '24

You may also want this line before RUN service ssh start

# Add test user to sudoers to skip sudo password asking
RUN echo 'test ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL' | tee -a /etc/sudoers

Jose Tandavala • Dec 11 '20

Thanks!

Amit Rastogi • May 8 '24

Thanks a lot for this post. This helped me in setting up a docker container as a Jenkins build agent in my learning environment.

Artem Grachov • Dec 30 '20

Thanks! :-)

Bhavani Ravi • Oct 22 '21

Is there a way to add public and private key authentication

Jordan Mielbrecht • Aug 11 '22

Thank you so much!

One thing though: I attempted to run docker run IMAGE_NAME -p 22:22 but it gave me an error. Running docker run -p 22:22 IMAGE_NAME worked instead.

zakaria • Jan 5 '24 • Edited

Thanks for sharing.

Jose Clemente García Rodríguez • Oct 4 '23

Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key
Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key

Marcelo Neffa • Nov 14 '22

Thanks ! I was just looking for this configuration. It works fine