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.
