ubuntu-installer/tasksel: OpenSSH server is not selected by default

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== Comment: #0 - Thorsten Diehl <email address hidden> - 2016-04-25 06:16:13 ==
Request for enhancement:
During Ubuntu 16.04 LTS server installation it is required to select manually the installation of OpenSSH server. For z Systems this should be enabled per default, since Linux on z Systems (in contradiction to other platforms) has only "rudimentary consoles" and always rely on a console reachable via ssh.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

it's actually a cosmetic thing I believe, whilst the openssh-server task is not selected, openssh-server is auto-installed if one continues the installation over network console there is code in place to "apt-install openssh-server". So i think this is mostly a cosmetic issue that tasksel doesn't look through what is scheduled to be installed already and correctly reconcile the available list of things with things to be already installed. As a minimal fix, I may figure out how to preseed openssh-server task to be preselected either just on s390x, or whenever network-console chooses to install openssh-server.

In KVM, the console that is available there is not "rudimentary" and can do ANSI color escape codes, emacs, etc =) thus is quite feature full, and I often finish KVM installs without using ssh connection.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

I am pondering if openssh-server task, should have a Test- stanza which checks apt-install file to see if openssh-server is scheduled to be installed, and if so, mark the task to be installed.

However, that would also should be true for any other tasks for which all key-packages are to be installed via apt-install.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

In Debian, s390x is missing from unlikely desktop architecture.

On Ubuntu, I'm not sure how to fix this.

1) Ubuntu tasksel seems to not notice that key-package openssh-server is installed and thus OpenSSH server task should be marked for installation / hidden.

2) Possibly network-console on ubuntu should add openssh-server to tasksel/force-tasks

3) something else....

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Sorry, I'm not going to have time to look into this.

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------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2016-11-29 07:42 EDT-------
Changed Target to 17.04 due to installer update

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

tasksel is a fork in ubuntu; thus debian's fix does not directly apply in ubuntu. I have discussed this with infinity during sprint last week, and the path forward is to presseed ssh task, by default on s390x. I will investigate if this can be minimally done for 17.04.

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------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2017-03-14 10:21 EDT-------
@Xnox: Do you have a minimal solution available?

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------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2017-04-03 10:22 EDT-------
Changed to 17.10 and lower prio after discussion with Canonical.
Openssh will be installled anyway , but not displayed.

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------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2017-11-16 11:02 EDT-------
Canonical, any update regarding this LP available?

[Frank Heimes (fheimes)]

Openssh is always installed if an installation over the network is done - even if it's not explicitly marked in the tasksel list.
Hence this is more a cosmetic issue and everything is working and therefore we treat this ticket with low priority (wishlist) ...
Nevertheless there are some investigations ongoing.

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------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2017-11-17 04:41 EDT-------
(In reply to comment #14)
> Openssh is always installed if an installation over the network is done -
> even if it's not explicitly marked in the tasksel list.
Confirmed.
> Hence this is more a cosmetic issue and everything is working and therefore
> we treat this ticket with low priority (wishlist) ...
I agree.
> Nevertheless there are some investigations ongoing.
Thanks!

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------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2017-11-17 06:32 EDT-------
Moved to 18.10 due to installer update, and low priority....

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2017-11-17 06:33 EDT-------
Moved to 18.04 due to installer update, and low priority....

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------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2018-04-18 03:23 EDT-------
@Canonical: Any updates for this LP?

[Frank Heimes (fheimes)]

The debian-installer makes sure that everything that is essential for the installation is automatically installed. This includes the openssh-server - the openssh-server will be installed even if not selected (so in contrast to the bug description it does not need to be selected).
Test: start an installation, do not select openssh-server and you will still be able to use the 2nd d-i stage as well as being able to login to the system remotely after the installation.
Hence this is just a 'cosmetic' feature and is marked with "wishlist" and low priority and is unlikely to be changed soon in d-i.

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------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2018-04-18 04:13 EDT-------
Accepted and confirmed. Closing this bug as NOT_A_BUG.

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------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2018-04-18 04:24 EDT-------
IBM Bugzilla status -> closed.

[Frank Heimes (fheimes)]

Setting to 'In Progress' with the work on subiquity.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

The new server installer resolves this issue. There is a separate OpenSSH step, where one can import ssh keys, enable/disable password auth, and even choose to install / not-install openssh server. And all of those options work correctly.