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| author | Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> | 2017-04-17 22:49:23 +0200 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2017-05-20 10:16:37 +0200 |
| commit | f3f8938fe0c07d221ebccdf5a9a0029fda01f036 (patch) | |
| tree | 2396fe120e4c2ed15c9734902c240c44c8a81f9a | |
| parent | e13b55ae797c8da2b06811d25e21abd173295b8d (diff) | |
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install: Enable SSH in installation image.
* gnu/system/install.scm (%installation-services): Add OPENSSH-SERVICE-TYPE.
* doc/guix.texi (Preparing for Installation)[Networking]: Document it.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 14 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/system/install.scm | 12 |
2 files changed, 25 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 3523937030..12fc806e17 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -36,7 +36,8 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2017 Federico Beffa@* Copyright @copyright{} 2017 Carlo Zancanaro@* Copyright @copyright{} 2017 Thomas Danckaert@* Copyright @copyright{} 2017 humanitiesNerd@* -Copyright @copyright{} 2017 Christopher Allan Webber +Copyright @copyright{} 2017 Christopher Allan Webber@* +Copyright @copyright{} 2017 Marius Bakke Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or @@ -7452,6 +7453,17 @@ ping -c 3 gnu.org Setting up network access is almost always a requirement because the image does not contain all the software and tools that may be needed. +@cindex installing over SSH +If you want to, you can continue the installation remotely by starting +an SSH server: + +@example +herd start ssh-daemon +@end example + +Make sure to either set a password with @command{passwd}, or configure +OpenSSH public key authentication before logging in. + @subsubsection Disk Partitioning Unless this has already been done, the next step is to partition, and diff --git a/gnu/system/install.scm b/gnu/system/install.scm index 191ccf1680..9a6febfeba 100644 --- a/gnu/system/install.scm +++ b/gnu/system/install.scm @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ ;;; Copyright © 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> ;;; Copyright © 2015 Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> ;;; Copyright © 2016 Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr> +;;; Copyright © 2017 Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> ;;; ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix. ;;; @@ -25,6 +26,7 @@ #:use-module (guix monads) #:use-module ((guix store) #:select (%store-prefix)) #:use-module (gnu services shepherd) + #:use-module (gnu services ssh) #:use-module (gnu packages admin) #:use-module (gnu packages bash) #:use-module (gnu packages bootloaders) @@ -262,6 +264,16 @@ You have been warned. Thanks for being so brave. ;; To facilitate copy/paste. (gpm-service) + ;; Add an SSH server to facilitate remote installs. + (service openssh-service-type + (openssh-configuration + (port-number 22) + (permit-root-login #t) + ;; The root account is passwordless, so make sure + ;; a password is set before allowing logins. + (allow-empty-passwords? #f) + (password-authentication? #t))) + ;; Since this is running on a USB stick with a unionfs as the root ;; file system, use an appropriate cache configuration. (nscd-service (nscd-configuration |