Ashley Penney wrote:
> Is this really a big problem?  I assume most people using cobbler
> either have a post-configuration tool (like us), or immediately jump
> in to configure the server.  It doesn't really seem like cobbler
> should concern itself too heavily with security, people shouldn't be
> building on public networks with ssh over root enabled by default.  I
> don't plan to change away from the default of 'cobbler' because puppet
> kicks in within a few minutes to set it to something else.
>   

Yet you have a window. It's much better to install it correctly than 
depend on Puppet to fix it.

--Michael


> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Michael DeHaan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   
>> As you are probably aware the sample kickstarts contain a default
>> password of "cobbler".
>>
>> Cobbler check will warn you if any kickstarts use this password.
>>
>> # "cobbler check"
>>
>> If you have any kickstarts using this password, you should change them.
>> If you have any systems that might be using those passwords already
>> installed, you should change them.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> --Michael
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