A large number of Docker containers?
Many, many Docker containers rely on "docker exec" or the kubectl equivalent to gain CLI access when needed. To have sshd in an Alpine Docker container, you're generally need to be running init and a bunch of demons, not just a single standalone service.
I'm guessing in practice relatively few people are actually exposed. But if they are, it's catastrophic.
Docker containers that run sshds?
Re:Sshole
by stingraycharles on Thursday November 05, 2026 @07:50AM
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Docker containers run sshd?
> Edit 2: You really don't need to look very hard to find public container examples at million-download scale.
It would be super helpful if you would answer a "what, specifically" question with a "this, specifically" itemized list or not answer at all.
This is not helpful.
Possibly public SFTP servers. I've allowed null passwords in the past for anonymous public SFTP and I run Alpine Linux exclusively for my servers both VM's and physical. The shadow package (PAM) did not get installed by default. I installed it but I had to specify it in the installation.
As in: "Actually out there"
The hypothetical Alpine exists, yes, but what runs that like that?