Michael DeHaan wrote: > Harry Hoffman wrote: >> root password hash is a bad idea! cobbler doesn't really protect those >> directories and if the errant badguy would able to download the hash >> they might be able to get the password through rainbow tables or brute >> force. >> >> what we do for our local users is use apg to create a default new >> password. We drop the plaintext version of this in their homedir and >> ensure it's chmod 600 chown user.user >> > We could perhaps generate one on an install by install basis (using the > magic of Cheetah), but we also then need to store that in cobbler in a > way that is retrievable by the admin so they can know it if they need to > log in. Cobbler's storage is read-only for this, so that is suboptimal. >
mysql-server spits out the notice when the service starts, maybe that's a way to give notice. Kind regards, Jeroen van Meeuwen -kanarip _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
