Dear all,
as a prospective first-time user of Fedora Server on a Raspberry Pi3:
is it possible to do the first-boot system configuration through a remote connection? I'm not planning to have a monitor and a keyboard attached to the Pi ever and would not like to do it on first boot either unless it's absolutely necessary.
Thanks, Wolfgang
On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 5:57 PM, Wolfgang Maier wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de wrote:
Dear all,
as a prospective first-time user of Fedora Server on a Raspberry Pi3:
is it possible to do the first-boot system configuration through a remote connection? I'm not planning to have a monitor and a keyboard attached to the Pi ever and would not like to do it on first boot either unless it's absolutely necessary.
Not by default, Fedora doesn't come with default accounts because it's not secure so you're generally expected to create them on first boot to ensure you set something unique. There's the --norootpass and/or --addkey= options to arm-image-installer that allow you to add a ssh key or allow no root passoword for headless if you really must do it that way.
On 26.04.2017 19:04, Peter Robinson wrote:
On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 5:57 PM, Wolfgang Maier wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de wrote:
is it possible to do the first-boot system configuration through a remote connection? I'm not planning to have a monitor and a keyboard attached to the Pi ever and would not like to do it on first boot either unless it's absolutely necessary.
Not by default, Fedora doesn't come with default accounts because it's not secure so you're generally expected to create them on first boot to ensure you set something unique. There's the --norootpass and/or --addkey= options to arm-image-installer that allow you to add a ssh key or allow no root passoword for headless if you really must do it that way.
I see. Adding a ssh key actually sounds like a good option to me. Thanks for pointing it out (I had missed it on the wiki page).
Best, Wolfgang
On 04/26/2017 07:04 PM, Peter Robinson wrote:
On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 5:57 PM, Wolfgang Maier wolfgang.maier@biologie.uni-freiburg.de wrote:
Dear all,
as a prospective first-time user of Fedora Server on a Raspberry Pi3:
is it possible to do the first-boot system configuration through a remote connection? I'm not planning to have a monitor and a keyboard attached to the Pi ever and would not like to do it on first boot either unless it's absolutely necessary.
Not by default, Fedora doesn't come with default accounts because it's not secure so you're generally expected to create them on first boot to ensure you set something unique. There's the --norootpass and/or --addkey= options to arm-image-installer that allow you to add a ssh key or allow no root passoword for headless if you really must do it that way.
Another approach, that I use all the time, is a uart to usb converter then run something like screen to give you access to the console. The character mode installer works fine this way.
On Mi, 2017-04-26 at 18:57 +0200, Wolfgang Maier wrote:
Dear all,
as a prospective first-time user of Fedora Server on a Raspberry Pi3:
is it possible to do the first-boot system configuration through a remote connection? I'm not planning to have a monitor and a keyboard attached to the Pi ever and would not like to do it on first boot either unless it's absolutely necessary.
https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2017/01/tweak-arm-images-with-libguestfs-tools/
cheers, Gerd
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