how to ssh docker container

Question

I am running the container hypriot/rpi-busybox-httpd

I am trying to ssh to docker container: but it is giving error :

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ docker exec -it cc55da85b915 bash rpc error: code = 2 desc = oci runtime error: exec failed: container_linux.go:247: starting container process caused "exec: \"bash\": executable file not found in $PATH"  pi@raspberrypi:~ $ docker exec -it cc55da85b915 sh rpc error: code = 2 desc = oci runtime error: exec failed: container_linux.go:247: starting container process caused "exec: \"sh\": executable file not found in $PATH" 

am I doing the right away ?

Answer 1

The image you're using seems that it doesn't have the binary /bin/bash installed but it should have /bin/sh

Try:

docker exec -it cc55da85b915 sh 

Answer 2

It could be your image does not have the binary /bin/bash installed (as suggested before), I had the same problem and I was able to enter into the container using /bin/sh

docker exec -ti cc55da85b915 /bin/sh 

Another workaround could be execute directly the commands without get access to any shell.

docker exec -ti cc55da85b915 ls /etc