ssh into a diskless system

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balanga

How do I ssh into a system running diskless?

I've managed to get sshd() running on a diskless system and set it up for PermitRootLogin yes and PermitEmptyPasswords yes, but I can't login. root on the diskless system does not have a password.
What do I need to do?
 
Did you restart the SSH daemon after setting PermitRootLogin in the config?

/etc/rc.d/sshd restart

PS Never tried with no password set though
 
I've rebooted several times. I've a sneaking suspicion that I need to set root with an empty password rather than without one, ie by running passwd and pressing Enter twice, which will set it to blank, as opposed to never running passwd, but that's only a guess.
 
I can login locally without setting a password, but if I try setting one I can't because it's a readonly system. the only thing I can think of is top copy /etc/passwd from somewhere else...
 
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