On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 06:08:56PM +0100, Roland Hieber wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 15, 2020 at 11:06:12AM +0100, Ladislav Michl wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 14, 2020 at 09:34:47PM +0100, Roland Hieber wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 06:46:48PM +0100, Ladislav Michl wrote:
> > > > On Fri, Nov 13, 2020 at 03:19:55PM +0100, Artur Wiebe wrote:
> > > > > How can openssh.postinst be disabled from within the rule files?
> > > > 
> > > > The very same could be achieved with symlink in your BSP:
> > > > projectroot/etc/rc.once.d/openssh -> /dev/null
> > > 
> > > I don't understand why you want to disable this. The SSH server will not
> > > start without host keys. Or do you want to install a static version of
> > > the host keys generated at build time? 
> > 
> > Yes, keys are static, generated at build time. Root filesystem is
> > read-only.
> > 
> > > If so, there should be an option for this. But for now, in my opinion,
> > > disabling OPENSSH_SSHD_GENKEYS will just lead to a broken SSH server.
> > 
> > As this is easy to solve at BSP level I never thought it could
> > be a thing :)
> 
> OK, but at least I would mention it in the kconfig help text. The

Ack.

> openssh recipe could also just pick up /etc/ssh/ssh_host_*_key via
> install_alternative if this option is disabled.

No. Shared ssh server keys are a bad idea. That's not something I want to
merge upstream.

But there are other use-cases to not use rc-once, e.g. if the server keys
are generated during provisioning. And not selecting rc-once in this case
makes sense, so this is acceptable im general.

Michael


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