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ps: I know that I just have to put a file names ssh in /boot, but that's not what I want

I have a raspberry pi running Raspbian Desktop and unfortunately it still didn't migrate everything to systemd. I'm following raspi-config ssh activation script and simulating update-rc in my SD card by renaming the rcX.d symlinks from K01ssh to S01ssh in the r2c.d, r3c.d, r4c.d, r5d.c. However, even after this the ssh daemon won't start in boot. If, however, I type sudo service ssh start in the raspberry terminal, the ssh starts. Does it mean that ssh is a systemd service or that it recognized the rcX.d symlinks I did?

I want to make ssh start by just editing the / tree, not messing with /boot.

ps: I know it can be made through raspi-config, but I need to activate it before the SD card's first boot and I don't wanna touch the /boot partition

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    I'm not sure what you're trying to do here. You can just enable the ssh service using raspi-config, it will be persistent throughout boots. Why do you want to do all the manual stuff?
    – 88weighed
    Oct 7, 2017 at 9:18
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    This sounds like you want to modify the master image before burning to a card and booting for the 1st time on a new RPi. You could simply mount the partitions after burning and create the necessary ssh and (if needed) wpa_supplicant.conf files. I'm not sure why you want to use the old init script process as part of this. Is that a key part of what you want to do, or just the best solution you've encountered so far?
    – bobstro
    Oct 11, 2017 at 11:04
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    I don't entirely know what you mean, but see my answer below!
    – User98764431
    Oct 14, 2017 at 5:43
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    If sshd is your only issue have you tried to uninstall it completely then reinstall it?
    – user29510
    Oct 14, 2017 at 19:13

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I am not entirely sure why you insist on:

make ssh start by just editing the / tree, not messing with /boot.

But, I think you don't want to create the 'SSH' file on /boot, so I get that.

Here is how I enable ssh:

sudo systemctl enable ssh
sudo systemctl enable ssh.socket

I'm not actually certain that ssh.socket must be enabled separately, that's just "works for me" kind of laziness...

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If I understand correctly, you want to start ssh at boot? sudo service ssh start won't start at boot but that allows you to start it manually. You could use a system cron? To do that use:

Make sure nano is installed

sudo apt-get install nano

Then when it's installed:

cd /home/pi

The Above is For saving file in pi directory

Sudo nano ssh-boot.sh

The above name came really be anything as your really just creating a new file just make sure it has the .sh extension! Add the following to ssh-boot.sh:

sudo service ssh start

Save the file with ctrl+ x and then the key to save the file! Then open the cron tab to edit! The -e is for edit:

cd ~

The above is to change directory to the default one!

sudo crontab -e

If you have never used this then you may have to select an editor option! So press 1 or 2 As you desire! After you select, add @reboot /home/pi/ssh-boot.sh To the bottom of the file!

Then start the cron tab:

/etc/init.d/cron start

You can check if it's enabled with:

sudo crontab -i

The i is for info!

I hope that helped and that I'm correct in what your issue was!

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