On Tue, Sep 22, 2020, 12:14 AM Khem Raj <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 5:45 PM Joshua Watt <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > The sshkeygen uses a lot of CPU time which delays booting (especially in
> > the case where no SSH connection is going to happen), but we also want
> > to be proactive about generating it early so that the first SSH login
> > doesn't have to wait a long time.
> >
> > Starting the key generation when the sockets are created (which is
> > pretty early in the boot process) slows down the boot due to high CPU
> > usage, so as a compromise start it no later than multi-user mode when
> > things have typically settled down. Note that if an SSH connection comes
> > in before multi-user.target is reached, key generation will be started
> > immediately.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Joshua Watt <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh/sshd.socket        | 1 -
> >  meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh/[email protected]      | 1 +
> >  .../recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh/sshdgenkeys.service | 5 +++++
> >  3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh/sshd.socket
> b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh/sshd.socket
> > index 8d76d62309..12c39b26b5 100644
> > --- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh/sshd.socket
> > +++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh/sshd.socket
> > @@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
> >  [Unit]
> >  Conflicts=sshd.service
> > -Wants=sshdgenkeys.service
> >
> >  [Socket]
> >  ExecStartPre=@BASE_BINDIR@/mkdir -p /var/run/sshd
> > diff --git a/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh/[email protected]
> b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh/[email protected]
> > index 9d9965e624..40fd38730a 100644
> > --- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh/[email protected]
> > +++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh/[email protected]
> > @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
> >  [Unit]
> >  Description=OpenSSH Per-Connection Daemon
> > +Wants=sshdgenkeys.service
> >  After=sshdgenkeys.service
> >
> >  [Service]
> > diff --git
> a/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh/sshdgenkeys.service
> b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh/sshdgenkeys.service
> > index fd81793d51..52617ec275 100644
> > --- a/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh/sshdgenkeys.service
> > +++ b/meta/recipes-connectivity/openssh/openssh/sshdgenkeys.service
> > @@ -7,3 +7,8 @@ ExecStart=@LIBEXECDIR@/sshd_check_keys
> >  Type=oneshot
> >  RemainAfterExit=yes
> >  Nice=10
> > +
> > +[Install]
> > +# Start key generation no later than multi-user mode so that we can
> hopefully
> > +# have it generated before the first SSH connection
> > +WantedBy=multi-user.target
>
> This looks better than what we have. Please do something similar for
> dropbearkey.service as well.
> I also wonder if we need After anchor but I would not worry too much about
> it.
>

Yes, it may need After=multi-user.target, otherwise it might start earlier
than you want


> > --
> > 2.28.0
> >
>
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