Hello,
If you have accidentally deleted /dev partition then you will face issues in ssh for sure, so you may try the following fixes via console so that ssh may start.
Try restarting sshd
/etc/init.d/sshd restart
if you receive the following output
/dev/null no such file or directory
then
cd /dev
ls -al null
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ls: cannot access null: No such file or directory
then you need to create one.
mknod /dev/null c 1 3
chmod 666 /dev/null
/etc/init.d/sshd restart
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PRNG is not seeded
means your urandom file not present now, you need to create it
ls -al /dev/urandom
ls: cannot access /dev/urandom: No such file or directory
mknod /dev/urandom c 1 9
now restart sshd.
/etc/init.d/sshd restart
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Stopping sshd: [ OK ] Starting sshd: [ OK ]
Cool, your sshd is now restarted, however when you login via ssh you may receive the following error and cannot access the server’s commandline.
login as: root root@xx.xx.xx.xx's password: Server refused to allocate pty
So, now you need to create pty and tty by the following command.
/sbin/MAKEDEV pty /sbin/MAKEDEV tty
now you will be able to access server via ssh. 🙂
