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I am starting to use GCP. I fixed a server (redhat), connected to it (using SSH, directly from GCP console) and deployed my application, everything worked well To try to fix something I played with the authorizations on some folder of my server. And stupidly changed the owner of VAR folder. result -> I can not anymore connect to my server! Meaning, I cannot reverse this change and fix it.

When I try (gcloud command, or directly from console) here is what I get from the log (which totally comfort me on my analysis of the bug) :

Oct 18 08:54:41 serverlinux systemd: Started Google Compute Engine Instance Setup. Oct 18 08:54:41 serverlinux systemd: Starting OpenSSH server daemon... Oct 18 08:54:41 serverlinux sshd: /var/empty/sshd must be owned by root and not group or world-writable. Oct 18 08:54:41 serverlinux systemd: sshd.service: main process exited, code=exited, status=255/n/a Oct 18 08:54:41 serverlinux systemd: Failed to start OpenSSH server daemon. Oct 18 08:54:41 serverlinux systemd: Unit sshd.service entered failed state. Oct 18 08:54:41 serverlinux systemd: sshd.service failed.

Question: Do I have another way to connect to my server, and then fix this bug? Or I need to delete everything, redo everything (and be more careful next time I am playing with authorizations :( )

Muhammad Dyas Yaskur
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Pierre
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  • Did you try rebooting you VM to see if it resolve the issue? I changed the permission of `\var` directory and I was able to reproduce the issue. However, after a reboot the default permission of the directory is automatically recovered. – Kamran Oct 22 '17 at 17:57

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You can enable interactive access to the serial console of your VM and then troubleshoot the instance. For more information visit Interacting with the Serial Console article.

Kamran
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