FreeBSD Installer

FreeBSD Installer script with Ansible user and base packages.

WARNING: NO PASSWORDS WILL BE SET! USE IT AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Usage

Boot into mfsBSD
Don't use the mini edition, the installer will fail!

Download

The --no-verify-peer flag is needed, ca_root_nss is not yet installed on mfsBSD.

fetch --no-verify-peer "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sh0shin/freebsd-installer/master/freebsd-installer.sh"

Modify to your needs

You should set the ANSIBLE_SSH_KEYS variable.

vi freebsd-installer.sh

Setup the hostname BSD_HOSTNAME variable or

hostname myfreebsdbox

Execute

chmod +x freebsd-installer.sh
./freebsd-installer.sh

Reboot

Finally reboot into your new FreeBSD system, and run Ansible afterwards.

reboot

Packages

The following packages will be installed as a base set for Ansible:

lang/python
sysutils/dmidecode
security/ca_root_nss
security/sudo
sysutils/firstboot-freebsd-update
sysutils/firstboot-pkgs

If it's a VMware virtual-machine:

emulators/open-vm-tools-nox11

Ansible user and sudo

This script creates the ansible user with uid/gid 1000, no password, and the ssh-key(s) specified with the ANSIBLE_SSH_KEYS variable. The ssh-key(s) will also be deployed for the root user!

The default sudoers rule:

ansible     ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
%ansible    ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL