Bug#858818: please consider implementing or at least documenting a headless-friendly emergency target

[Martin Pitt]

Michael Biebl [2017-03-27 18:03 +0200]:
> I don't think such a service needs to be part of ssh (or systemd for
> that matter), it might actually be better if that was shipped by a
> separate package, which can be installed on demand for cases likes your
> (and is ideally maintained by users of such functionality).
> 
> Such a package could try to bring up the network by itself, by first
> trying to directly run NM , ifup or even attempting a simple dhclient.
> Directly, meaning not using the .service units which might have
> dependencies which might not be satisfied by emergency.target/rescue.target.

Ubuntu's friendly-recovery might serve as a base here -- it does the above
"opportunistic" network bringup, offers fsck and apt-get -f install and others
(but not SSH as far as I know, but it's easy enough to extend with shell
plugins).

Martin

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