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From: "Artur Wiebe" <artur@4wiebe.de>
To: ptxdist@pengutronix.de
Subject: Re: [ptxdist]  ?==?utf-8?q? ?==?utf-8?q? ?=  [PATCH]?==?utf-8?q? DRAFT:l
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2020 20:16:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3a0-5fb2d000-87-46e83c80@56045893> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201116103202.GF14638@pengutronix.de>

Hi Michael,

I found a solution. What do you think?

Artur 
 
  
On Monday, November 16, 2020 11:32 CET, Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de> wrote: 
 
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 10:45:07AM +0100, Artur Wiebe wrote:
> > On Monday, November 16, 2020 10:36 CET, Michael Olbrich <m.olbrich@pengutronix.de> wrote: 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > This was also my concern...
> > 
> > > 
> > > 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.
> > 
> > I still need a way to disable openssh.postinst if OPENSSH_SSHD_GENKEYS is not set.
> 
> Hmmm, right. In the BSP, a /dev/null symlinks works for this as well, but
> we currently don't have a way to not install the postinst script. We could
> do something like this (untested):
> 
> 	$(call install_script_replace, openssh, postinst, @RC_ONCE@, \
> 		$(call ptx/ifdef, PTXCONF_OPENSSH_SSHD_GENKEYS,,#))
> 
> And in rules/openssh.postinst:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> @RC_ONCE@$DESTDIR/usr/sbin/enable-rc-once openssh
> 
> This way the script may be installed, but it will do nothing. If
> PTXCONF_OPENSSH_SSHD_GENKEYS is disabled.
> 
> Michael
> 
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-11-16 19:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-13 14:19 [ptxdist] [PATCH] DRAFT: openssh: make host key generation optional Artur Wiebe
2020-11-13 17:46 ` Ladislav Michl
2020-11-14 20:34   ` Roland Hieber
2020-11-15 10:06     ` Ladislav Michl
2020-11-15 17:08       ` Roland Hieber
2020-11-16  9:36         ` Michael Olbrich
2020-11-16  9:45           ` [ptxdist] ?==?utf-8?q? ?==?utf-8?q? [PATCH] DRAFT:?==?utf-8?q? " Artur Wiebe
2020-11-16 10:32             ` [ptxdist] ?= [PATCH] DRAFT:=?utf-8?q? " Michael Olbrich
2020-11-16 15:09               ` [ptxdist] ?==?utf-8?q? ?==?utf-8?q? ?= [PATCH]?==?utf-8?q? DRAFT:l Artur Wiebe
2020-11-17  6:55                 ` [ptxdist] ?= ?==?utf-8?q? " Michael Olbrich
2020-11-16 15:26               ` [ptxdist] ?= [PATCH] DRAFT:=?utf-8?q? openssh: make host key generation optional Denis Osterland-Heim
2020-11-16 19:16               ` Artur Wiebe [this message]
2020-11-17 11:24                 ` [ptxdist] ?= ?==?utf-8?q? [PATCH]?==?utf-8?q? DRAFT:l Roland Hieber
2020-11-17 11:29                   ` [ptxdist] ?= " Roland Hieber
2020-11-16  9:36 ` [ptxdist] [PATCH] DRAFT: openssh: make host key generation optional Michael Olbrich

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