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bug#26548: [PATCH] install: Enable SSH in installation image.
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Marius Bakke |
Subject: |
bug#26548: [PATCH] install: Enable SSH in installation image. |
Date: |
Mon, 08 May 2017 14:01:34 +0200 |
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Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
> Hello!
>
> Marius Bakke <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> Hi Guix! This patch adds an SSH server to the installation image
>> to aid remote installations as requested in
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2017-01/msg00047.html
>>
>> lsh-service depends on networking, so I pulled in a DHCP client too.
>> It increases the image size by about 29MiB.
>>
>> * gnu/system/install.scm (%installation-services): Add DHCP-CLIENT-SERVICE
>> and LSH-SERVICE.
>
> [...]
>
>> + ;; Add a DHCP client for networking.
>> + (dhcp-client-service)
>
> This is a problem: in the installation instructions, we tell people to
> configure networking (possibly wireless) by hand, so we cannot expect
> the DHCP client to work directly when the image is booted.
>
> Also, the installation instructions would need to be updated.
>
> However, what we could do, instead, is to add an SSH service that is off
> by default (with (start? #f)) and does not depend on ‘networking’. That
> way, people would only need to type
>
> herd start ssh-daemon
>
> to get the thing up and running. WDYT?
I've changed this patch to use OpenSSH, but can't really see how to
override the openssh-shepherd-service to not depend on networking. Any
hints? :-)
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