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Xenial image for frieza does not have SSH configured correctly

Bug #1650677 reported by Larry Price
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Canonical System Image
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Alex T Newman
The Avila project
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Alfonso Sanchez-Beato

Bug Description

After installing the xenial-arm64 image on frieza, it's not possible to use `phablet-shell` to connect to the device. After some digging, I found that openssh is installed on the device but there are no host certs in `/etc/ssh/`. I fixed this locally by creating a cert with `ssh-keygen -t rsa -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key`, but this key should probably be available out of the box.

frieza
arm64
Ubuntu 16.04 r101

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Pat McGowan (pat-mcgowan) wrote :

@john got anyone to look at this?

Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
assignee: nobody → John McAleely (john.mcaleely)
Alex T Newman (alextnewman)
Changed in canonical-devices-system-image:
assignee: John McAleely (john.mcaleely) → Alex T Newman (alextnewman)
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Oliver Grawert (ogra) wrote :

the certs used to be created by the sysv-init/upstart script in the past on first start of sshd ... perhaps that changed with the switch to systemd so you would need a separate script

Alex T Newman (alextnewman)
Changed in avila:
assignee: nobody → Alfonso Sanchez-Beato (alfonsosanchezbeato)
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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

None of my sysv/upstart jobs ever created host keys at boot time; I have specifically nacked that multiple times because the time you exactly shouldn't generate host keys is at boot when the system is low on entropy (there is academic research about how that particular idea leads to weak keys in the wild). Anything which you observed doing that in the past was outside of the openssh package, and either without my knowledge or over my objections.

Host keys should normally be created at installation time (e.g. when the image is installed on the device, if this is an image-based upgrade) instead, or at least at some point when sufficient entropy is likely to be available.

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Colin Watson (cjwatson) wrote :

https://factorable.net/weakkeys12.conference.pdf is the research I'm thinking of.

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