Indeed I was able to do a complete installation with it.
I have just run apt in ssh, and got:
paul@jacko:~/hurd25janv$ ssh paul@localhost -p 2222
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
@ WARNING: REMOTE HOST IDENTIFICATION HAS CHANGED! @
@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
IT IS POSSIBLE THAT SOMEONE IS DOING SOMETHING NASTY!
Someone could be eavesdropping on you right now (man-in-the-middle attack)!
It is also possible that a host key has just been changed.
The fingerprint for the ECDSA key sent by the remote host is
SHA256:4ZFwXRndpFymdOKgXgCct8mA4hpwYUEVYNyZ4t+/8/M.
Please contact your system administrator.
Add correct host key in /home/paul/.ssh/known_hosts to get rid of this message.
Offending ECDSA key in /home/paul/.ssh/known_hosts:1
remove with:
ssh-keygen -f "/home/paul/.ssh/known_hosts" -R "[localhost]:2222"
ECDSA host key for [localhost]:2222 has changed and you have requested strict checking.
Host key verification failed.
[I guess this is normal because the server have changed from last time it was accepted.
So I did the:]
paul@jacko:~/hurd25janv$ ssh-keygen -f "/home/paul/.ssh/known_hosts" -R "[localhost]:2222"
# Host [localhost]:2222 found: line 1
/home/paul/.ssh/known_hosts updated.
Original contents retained as /home/paul/.ssh/known_hosts.old
paul@jacko:~/hurd25janv$ ssh paul@localhost -p 2222
The authenticity of host '[localhost]:2222 ([127.0.0.1]:2222)' can't be established.
ECDSA key fingerprint is SHA256:4ZFwXRndpFymdOKgXgCct8mA4hpwYUEVYNyZ4t+/8/M.
Are you sure you want to continue connecting (yes/no/[fingerprint])? yes
Warning: Permanently added '[localhost]:2222' (ECDSA) to the list of known hosts.
paul@localhost's password:
GNU debian 0.9 GNU-Mach 1.8+git20201129-486/Hurd-0.9 i686-AT386
The programs included with the Debian GNU/Hurd system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.
Debian GNU/Hurd comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
permitted by applicable law.
paul@debian:~$ ls
paul@debian:~$ pwd
/home/paul
paul@debian:~$ ls
paul@debian:~$ ls -lh
total 0
paul@debian:~$ su
Password:
root@debian:/home/paul# apt update
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
All packages are up to date.
W: Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/source/Sources' as repository '
http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports sid InRelease' does not seem to provide it (sources.list entry misspelt?)
root@debian:/home/paul#
And now I am asking myself is it normal "Skipping acquire of configured file 'main/source/Sources' as repository '
http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports sid InRelease' does not seem to provide it"?