On Tuesday, 4 December 2018 14:32:03 CET Sorin Srbu wrote: > 1. I order and buy a bunch of Dell laptops with Ubuntu 16 LTS > preinstalled. > > 2. I manually go trough the first-install-config. > > 3. After reboot, it's up, and I want to use Ansible from a remote > admin-computer to set the laptop up identically for eg a course. > > 4. Ansible can't connect, because it seems Ubuntu 16 doesn't install and > activate ssh by default! > See > > https://askubuntu.com/questions/985375/does-ubuntu-desktop-enable-remote-ssh-access-by-default. > > 5. I had intented to use Ansible to not have to login manually and > install eg ssh and set all the other configs, mounts etc. > > > Basically, now what? > Feels like this is a chicken and egg situation here. > > How do *you* get around this obstacle when dealing with Ubuntu?
Use PXE boot and provide a preseed file that installes openssh-server. -- Kai Stian Olstad -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ansible Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to ansible-project+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to ansible-project@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/ansible-project/2653260.7kNNmfoe1N%40x1. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
