On 4/23/20 10:14 AM, Andre McCurdy wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 1:30 AM Alex Kiernan <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 7:48 PM Andre McCurdy <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 6:52 AM Alex Kiernan <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> sshd.socket launches the templated [email protected], so by moving the
>>>> sshdgenkeys.service to sshd.socket, key generation can start in advance
>>>> of a connection.
>>>
>>> Is deferring key generation until the first connection a bug or by design?
>>
>> If you've installed it, presumably you're expecting connections. But I
>> agree you could argue it either way.
> 
> The trade off is between slower first boot (or every boot for
> read-only rootfs if host keys are not persistent) -vs- slower first
> incoming ssh connection.
> 
> Since the first incoming ssh connection may never happen (especially
> if ssh is only used for debugging or development), optimising it at
> the expense of boot time doesn't seem to be an obvious improvement.
> 

I tend to agree. Perhaps it could be covered under read-only-rootfs
DISTRO_FEATURE

> 
> 
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