On Tuesday, 4 December 2018 14:32:03 CET Sorin Srbu wrote: > 1. I order and buy a bunch of Dell laptops with Ubuntu 16 LTS > preinstalled. > > 2. I manually go trough the first-install-config. > > 3. After reboot, it's up, and I want to use Ansible from a remote > admin-computer to set the laptop up identically for eg a course. > > 4. Ansible can't connect, because it seems Ubuntu 16 doesn't install and > activate ssh by default! > See > > https://askubuntu.com/questions/985375/does-ubuntu-desktop-enable-remote-ssh-access-by-default. > > 5. I had intented to use Ansible to not have to login manually and > install eg ssh and set all the other configs, mounts etc. > > > Basically, now what? > Feels like this is a chicken and egg situation here. > > How do *you* get around this obstacle when dealing with Ubuntu?
Use PXE boot and provide a preseed file that installes openssh-server. -- Kai Stian Olstad -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/2653260.7kNNmfoe1N%40x1. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
