Accesses the SLXVM Linux shell from the SLX-OS CLI.
Privileged EXEC mode
This command is only available for users with admin-level permissions.
You can also run this command from Global configuration mode:
device(config)# do start-shell.
Inside the SLXVM Linux shell, you can escalate your privileges to root access, by using the su root Linux command. Escalation to root access is password protected.
Inside the SLXVM Linux shell, execution of root privilege commands using sudo is not supported.
The idle timeout of Linux shell sessions is five minutes, after which you are automatically logged out of the Linux shell and returned to the SLX-OS CLI.
The following example accesses the SLXVM Linux shell from the SLX-OS CLI.
device# start-shell Entering Linux shell for the user: admUser [admUser@SLX]#
The following example escalates access from the default SLXVM Linux shell to root.
[admUser@SLX]# su root
Password:
We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System
Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:
#1) Respect the privacy of others.
#2) Think before you type.
#3) With great power comes great responsibility.
[root@SLX]#
In the following example, the Linux ps -ef command lists the process status.
[admUser@SLX]# ps -ef UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD root 1 0 0 Jul24 ? 00:00:04 /sbin/init root 2 0 0 Jul24 ? 00:00:00 [kthreadd] root 3 2 0 Jul24 ? 00:00:00 [migration/0] root 4 2 0 Jul24 ? 00:00:03 [ksoftirqd/0] root 5 2 0 Jul24 ? 00:00:00 [migration/1] root 6 2 0 Jul24 ? 00:00:03 [ksoftirqd/1] root 7 2 0 Jul24 ? 00:00:00 [migration/2] root 8 2 0 Jul24 ? 00:00:02 [ksoftirqd/2] root 9 2 0 Jul24 ? 00:00:00 [migration/3] root 10 2 0 Jul24 ? 00:00:02 [ksoftirqd/3] root 11 2 0 Jul24 ? 00:00:00 [migration/4] root 12 2 0 Jul24 ? 00:00:02 [ksoftirqd/4] root 13 2 0 Jul24 ? 00:00:00 [migration/5] root 14 2 0 Jul24 ? 00:00:03 [ksoftirqd/5] root 27 2 0 Jul24 ? 00:00:00 [cpuset] root 28 2 0 Jul24 ? 00:00:01 [khelper] root 31 2 0 Jul24 ? 00:00:00 [netns] root 34 2 0 Jul24 ? 00:00:00 [async/mgr] root 270 2 0 Jul24 ? 00:00:00 [sync_supers] root 272 2 0 Jul24 ? 00:00:00 [bdi-default] ... root 8kblockd/6]182 1 0 Jul24 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/inetd root 8237 1 0 Jul24 ? 00:00:00 /usr/sbin/sshd admin 27536 27535 0 04:19 pts/4 00:00:00 ps -ef
The following example exits a root-level user to the SLXVM Linux shell.
[root@SLX]# exit exit [admUser@SLX]#
The following example exits from the SLXVM Linux shell to the SLX-OS CLI.
[admUser@SLX]# exit exit Exited from Linux shell device#