Bug#594175: openssh-server: support generation of ssh host keys in init script
Hi,
On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 10:27:11AM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 12:23:52PM +0200, Michael Prokop wrote:
> > Package: openssh-server
> > Version: 1:5.5p1-4
> > Severity: wishlist
> >
> >
> > I mentioned this issue in my talk "State of Debian (based) Linux
> > live systems in 2010" at Debconf10. Colin suggested to talk about
> > it later on, so I'm reporting this as a wishlist item.
> >
> > It would be nice if the sshd init script would support generation of
> > ssh host keys - iff there aren't any keys present yet.
> >
> > The (main) use case for this feature are live systems where you
> > usually don't want to ship pre-generated keys on one hand, on the
> > other hand not everyone wants to generate the host keys
> > automatically on each boot (consuming time and ressources).
> >
> > Taking care of key generation as someone invokes '/etc/init.d/ssh
> > start' works fine for the Grml live systems and its users. What
> > we're doing is something as simple as:
> >
> > ,---- [ relevant snipped of Grml's ssh initscript ]
> > | RSA1_KEY=/etc/ssh/ssh_host_key
> > | RSA_KEY=/etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
> > | DSA_KEY=/etc/ssh/ssh_host_dsa_key
> > |
> > | case "$1" in
> > | start)
> > | [...]
> > | if ! test -f $RSA1_KEY ; then
> > | log_action_msg "Generating SSH1 RSA host key..."
> > | $KEYGEN -t rsa1 -f $RSA1_KEY -C '' -N '' || exit 1
> > | fi
> > |
> > | if ! test -f $RSA_KEY ; then
> > | log_action_msg "Generating SSH RSA host key..."
> > | $KEYGEN -t rsa -f $RSA_KEY -C '' -N '' || exit 1
> > | fi
> > |
> > | if ! test -f $DSA_KEY ; then
> > | log_action_msg "Generating SSH2 DSA host key..."
> > | $KEYGEN -t dsa -f $DSA_KEY -C '' -N '' || exit 1
> > | fi
> > | [...]
> > `----
> >
> > Would be great if that feature would be available in Debian/Ubuntu
> > based (live) systems as well. :)
>
> I wonder if we should just create a openssh-host-keys package that ships
> a systemd unit/init script to create the keys (as (I think it was
> Christian) suggested at debconf.
>
> This just came up here as well
>
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2016-July/msg00090.html
>
Michael is grml working around this somehow? If so can you attach a
link?
Cheers,
-- Guido
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