Michael DeHaan wrote: > Dustin Black wrote: > >> How about simply generating a random password at RPM installation time, and >> noting strongly in the comments of the default kickstart files that it is so? >> >> > > The issue I have is that I don't think all of our users are clueful > enough on how to replace the password hash. >
Slight reading comprehension error on my part. Yes, this is doable, but we still need a way to retrieve what the password used was, which gets complicated. It also leaves the user without a way to log in on a "stock" install. I spend a lot of time doing IRC support, so solutions that are obvious out of the box are preferred, so we don't have to keep answering the "I can't log in" problem. So this may involve a more complicated solution, and at that point, perhaps it's best solved by site-specific policy/plans. Shipping a snippet to create a random password is reasonable and probably a good thing to do -- enabling it by default, not so sure. > Cobbler walks a line between being a very powerful tool for complex > installations but something that's also trivially easy to use out of the > box. > > --Michael > > > >> ________________________________________ >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Javier Palacios >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 1:41 PM >> To: cobbler mailing list >> Subject: Re: Reminder: Has anyone /not/ changed the default passwords in >> your kickstarts? >> >> >> >>> A future idea for /usr/bin/cobbler setup is probably to ask the user >>> what they want the default password for the sample kickstarts to be and >>> then add that to the sample kickstarts. >>> >>> >> Ask for password does not match well with rpm install. >> What about just take the hash from /etc/shadow from an existing user? >> (either a cobbler user or simply root) >> >> JaviP >> _______________________________________________ >> cobbler mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler >> _______________________________________________ >> cobbler mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > cobbler mailing list > [email protected] > https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler > _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
