Enabling noninteractive shells on Virtual I/O Server 1.3 or later

After upgrading the Virtual I/O Server to 1.3 or later, you can enable noninteractive shells using the startnetsvc command.

If you installed OpenSSH on a level of the Virtual I/O Server prior to 1.3, and then upgraded to 1.3 or later, noninteractive shells might not work because the SSH configuration file needs modification.

To enable noninteractive shells in Virtual I/O Server 1.3 or later, run the following command from the SSH client:

ioscli startnetsvc ssh

Note: You can run the startnetsvc command when the SSH service is running. In this situation, the command appears to fail, but is successful.