bug#26548: [PATCH] install: Enable SSH in installation image.

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Marius Bakke transcribed 1.5K bytes:
> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > On Mon, Apr 17, 2017 at 11:30:30PM +0200, Marius Bakke wrote:
> >> Hi Guix! This patch adds an SSH server to the installation image
> >> to aid remote installations as requested in
> >> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2017-01/msg00047.html
> >> 
> >> lsh-service depends on networking, so I pulled in a DHCP client too.
> >> It increases the image size by about 29MiB.
> >> 
> >> * gnu/system/install.scm (%installation-services): Add DHCP-CLIENT-SERVICE
> >> and LSH-SERVICE.
> >
> > I wonder, did you consider using OpenSSH instead? Are there any
> > advantages to using lsh here?
> 
> I chose lsh mostly because I thought the GNU live image should use the
> GNU ssh implementation. For the intended usage (logging in once with a
> password to complete the installation), there is no difference to the
> end user. No strong opinion though :-)


Uhm, didn't we choose to default to OpenSSH in the config? Why should the 
installation
image differ?

There were good reasons against lsh mentioned in the thread.
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