First-boot setup

The first time a TorqOS image boots, the console asks a few questions, once, like a network device's initial configuration dialog.

The questions

1. The machine's name and time zone.
2. Your user name and password (asked twice). This is the machine's owner account.
3. How to log in from other machines:
   • not at all: the default; pressing Enter turns nothing on;
   • by password;
   • by SSH key: paste your public key;
   • both.

What happens next

Setup writes the machine's configuration from your answers, and keeps your password in a file only the system can read, never in the configuration. TorqOS then builds that configuration, switches to it and records it as change #1, "TorqOS set up".

If the configuration does not build, nothing changes and setup asks again. If setup is interrupted (by a power cut, say), it picks up where it left off at the next boot.

When it is done, the console shows a login prompt. Log in with the user name and password you chose, then run torqcli to manage the machine. Setup never runs again.

Where remote login stands

You chose	SSH is
Not at all	off; nothing listens on the network
By SSH key	on, keys only, for you only
By password	on, passwords allowed, for you only; repeated wrong guesses are blocked
Both	on, keys and passwords, for you only

root never logs in over SSH, whatever you chose. You can change any of this later in the configuration; see Users, passwords and SSH.

Next: Your first session.