autoinstall ssh:install-server:false is misleading in 22.04

[ov2k]

With 22.04, openssh-server is baked into the image curtin copies to the target. The ssh:install-server key no longer controls whether openssh-server gets installed. It should be easy enough to have the bit of code that installs openssh-server when the key is true also remove it when the key is false.

[Michael Hudson-Doyle (mwhudson)]

Argh, openssh-server is not supposed to be baked into the image curtin copies :(

[ov2k (ov2k)]

Then I should also point out that other things like ufw are also baked in. Those are the only two I've noticed so far, but I haven't been looking very hard.

[Paride Legovini (paride)]

Confirmed still happening on the Jammy 20220719 daily.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Andreas Lindhé (lindhe)]

It seems to me like `allow-pw: false` does not work either. Could that also be a side effect of 22.04 having the server built in?

[Nobuto Murata (nobuto)]

fwiw, this worked for me with 22.04 LTS ISO.

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#cloud-config
autoinstall:
  version: 1
  identity:
    hostname: ubuntu-server
    username: ubuntu
    # password=ubuntu
    password: "$6$exDY1mhS4KUYCE/2$zmn9ToZwTKLhCw.b4/b.ZRTIZM30JZ4QrOQ2aOXJ8yk96xpcCof0kxKwuX1kqLG/ygbJ1f8wxED22bTL4F46P0"
  ssh:
    install-server: yes # https://launchpad.net/bugs/1974483
    allow-pw: no
====

[Michael Hudson-Doyle (mwhudson)]

This is fixed in the 23.10 dailies. I'm not sure it's really practical to fix this for the next 22.04 point release, unfortunately.