Re: support for installing unconfigured systems (VM images, Debian Live images, preinstalled mobile/tablet images)

[The Fungi <fungi@yuggoth.org>]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:41:07AM +0700, Ivan Shmakov wrote:
> AIUI, the .postinst scripts may be re-executed with
> dpkg-reconfigure(8).
[...]

In fact, for years I've relied on precisely this behavior to
regenerate SSH host keys when cloning machines (virtual or
physical)...

   sudo rm /etc/ssh/*_key* && sudo dpkg-reconfigure openssh-server

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