Is it possible to start a shell session in a running container without ssh

Question

I tried running this command

docker run "id of running container" /bin/bash

but I got the following error

2013/07/27 20:00:24 Internal server error: 404 trying to fetch remote history for 27d757283842

if I want to run bash shell in a running container

do I have to run an SSH server in it and login via ssh ?

Answer 1

use this

docker exec -it "id of running container" bash

Hope this helps…