Re: guixsd install questions

[Divan Santana <divan@santanas.co.za>]

Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> writes:

>> * How to get sshd running on install image for easier remote install.
>>
>> Useful for a VM:
>>
>> I'm doing this nasty hack for now.
>>
>> Get ssh working on boot image:
>> #+BEGIN_EXAMPLE
>> guix package -i shadow openssh
>> export PATH="/root/.guix-profile/bin:/root/.guix-profile/sbin${PATH:+}$PATH"
>> zile /etc/passwd # add sshd account
>> zile /etc/shadow # add sshd account
>> mkdir /etc/ssh
>> echo "PermitRootLogin yes" > /etc/ssh/sshd_config
>> ssh-keygen -t ecdsa -N "" -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key
>> `which sshd`
>> passwd root
>> #+END_EXAMPLE
>>
>> Sure there's a better way then the above hack?
>
> Hi Divan,
>
> That is a nasty hack indeed. Yet it's about the best approach right now.
>
> I think it could be useful to ship a SSH server in the install image.
> You can generate a disk image containing a service for "lsh" by adding
> something like this to the file "gnu/system/install.scm", under
> "%installation-services".
>
>           (lsh-service #:port-number 22
>                        #:root-login? #t
>                        #:password-authentication? #f
>                        ;; The root account is passwordless, so
>                        ;; make sure a password is required.
>                        #:allow-empty-passwords? #f)
>
> Then generate a new disk image with
> `guix system disk-image --image-size=1G gnu/system/install.scm`.
>
> Can you try that? If it works, feel free to submit it as a patch to the
> "guix-devel" mailing list and we can consider adding it to the next
> release.

Thanks a ton for the feedback.

I'll certainly try look into this and when I do, give feedback.

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Best regards,

Divan Santana