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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index e6a9706b92..72741e034a 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 @@ -7446,6 +7447,17 @@ 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 |