1. View the LISH Console via SSH in linodes/linode286353, then open PuTTY and fill in the following on the “Session” page, as shown in Figure 1:
Host Name: lish-us-east.linode.com
Port: 22
Connection type: SSH
② Click “Open”. After the terminal window pops up:
When prompted for a username, enter: the Linode cloud platform login username
When prompted for a password, enter: the Linode cloud platform login password
2. I saw the target instance linode286353 using the list command. To connect to the target Linode instance, at the current [tigertatts@lish-us-east.linode.com]# prompt, directly enter the instance identifier linode286353 and press Enter. Then enter the username root, followed by the password. The login is successful, as shown in Figure 2.
[tigertatts@lish-us-east.linode.com]# list
Linodes located in this data center:
linode286353 Newark, NJ
[tigertatts@lish-us-east.linode.com]# linode286353
[linode286353@h1990-cjj1 lish] Fri 20 Mar 2026 03:28:26 AM EDT
[linode286353@h1990-cjj1 lish] Linode Shell (lish) Console starting…
[linode286353@h1990-cjj1 lish]
Determining IP information for eth0…[ 6.005231] 8021q: adding VLAN 0 to HW0
done.
[ OK ]
Starting auditd: [ OK ]
Starting system logger: [ OK ]
Starting irqbalance: [ OK ]
Starting system message bus: [ OK ]
Mounting other filesystems: [ OK ]
Retrigger failed udev events[ OK ]
Starting sshd: [ OK ]
[ 107.690136] clocksource: Long readout interval, skipping watchdog check: cs_5
Timeout error occurred trying to start MySQL Daemon.
Starting mysqld: [FAILED]
Starting sendmail: [ OK ]
Starting sm-client: [ OK ]
/usr/sbin/abrt-install-ccpp-hook: line 50: printf: write error: No space left oe
Starting abrt daemon: [ OK ]
Starting httpd: httpd: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualifiee
[ OK ]
Starting crond: [ OK ]
Starting atd: [ OK ]
CentOS release 6.3 (Final)
Kernel 6.14.3-x86_64-linode168 on an x86_64
li1269-60 login: root
Password:
Login incorrect
login: Login timed out after 180 seconds
CentOS release 6.3 (Final)
Kernel 6.14.3-x86_64-linode168 on an x86_64
li1269-60 login: root
Password: Login timed out after 180 seconds
CentOS release 6.3 (Final)
Kernel 6.14.3-x86_64-linode168 on an x86_64
login: root
Password:
Last login: Sat Jan 31 16:12:48 from 120.229.7.113