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Enable WEBSSH for RedHat based Custom Docker image

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Hanli_Ren
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Nov 11, 2021
In App Service platform, the WEBSSH feature is backed by openssh-server. For Azure App Service built-in docker images, the platform by default has OpenSSH server configured. But for custom docker ima...
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In some situation, customer doesn't want to use ROOT user to run the app. But we requires to use ROOT user to start SSH service. 

As a workaround to mitigate the issue, we could use below steps:

1. install "sudo" in Dockerfile during the build process: RUN yum -y install sudo

2. Only use ROOT user to start the SSH service in startup script: echo 'Docker!' | su root -c "/usr/sbin/sshd"

 

Hope that will help 🙂