How to enable ssh before user is logged in?

Jphillips · 2023-12-01 11:14:46

I manage a remote machine that has several users, and I'm trying to figure out how to allow me to ssh into the machine before anyone has physically logged in. For example, if I update and restart the machine, I lose ssh axis until someone physically logs in. Is there a way to enable shh login before anyone has logged in? I can't use automatic login for security, so ideally I'd like to have ssh start up immediately when booting.

Any suggestions for how to do this?

V1del · 2023-12-01 11:24:23

Is this actually an Arch system? Generally just the sshd daemon should be started which should be completely irrelevant to a local user having logged in: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/OpenSS … management

seth · 2023-12-01 17:37:58

I'll suspect that this is an https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XY_problem - the problem isn't ssh but the network and the OP will only establish a wifi carrier w/ a session login.
On a limb: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Networ … et_on_boot

Jphillips · 2023-12-04 10:03:55

Thanks, so yeah, the issue seems to be that the network interface isn't active until the session is logged in. I'll try going back to systemd-networkd and see if that fixes things.

seth · 2023-12-04 11:25:06

This has nothing to do w/ the specific network managing service, you just need to make sure to automatically establish the connection with the boot.

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How to enable ssh before user is logged in?

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