FAI & ssh

[Geert Stappers]

At 11:00 +0200 4/9/02, Filip Sneppe wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Would someone care to explain how to get FAI to work with ssh, (or rsh
>for that matter) ? I've been trying for a hours, spread over a couple of
>days, to get FAI to work with either rsh or ssh, but to no avail.
>
>The problem is that after booting and mounting /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot/,
>I am unable to execute any remote commands, and hence the installation
>is unable to continue.
>
>With rsh, I went as far as sniffing the wire, only to see that the setup
>disk tries to execute two commands, one as root and another as fai. Both
>commands fail, and that's it.
>
>Can someone point me to some documentation on how to setup rsh to allow
>the remote logins. I guess my security settings are too strict.
>
>As far as ssh is concerned, the installation stops at the same time, but
>with a difference message:
>
>The authenticity of host '192.168.0.10 (192.168.0.10)' can't be
>established.
>RSA fingerprint is c9: ... [snip] ... :45.
>Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no)?
>
>It doesn't matter what I try next, I am simple unable to
>logon/continue...
>
>The documentation is pretty good the rest of the time, but about the
>remote commands I only found a little part that basically says : "oh,
>by the way, you should get that to work properly". :-)
>
>Well I guess I'm too stupid to figure out how, so I would really
>appreciate it if someone could give a step by step/command by command
>explanation on how to get this to work, where to put what keys, what
>.rhosts files to modify, etc.
>

IIRC the fai server has to have sshd running
and a user 'fai' with no password.

See also the closed bugs of FAI on the Debian BTS


Geert