"Lennart Sorensen" <lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> writes:

> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:50:59PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
>> Package: debian-installer
>> Severity: wishlist
>> 
>> On some system that I preseed-install, I don't want any root password
>> set nor do I want a normal user account.  I get access to the system via
>> SSH, using a public-key that I populate using a late_command.
>
> So you want a system that you can not fix if it needs to prompt for a
> root password to manually run fsck?  There are after all a few times
> where being able to login as root directly on the console is required.
> Not allowing ssh with a pasword as root is a good diea (and the default
> these days), but that does not mean you don't still need a root
> password.

I will never have access to the console for these machines, so if it
stops during boot I would just kill the machine and create a new one.
The machines are created automatically and will do what it is intended
to do until it is destroyed.  If it crashes or dies mid-way, then a new
machine will be created that hopefully will work better.  I am SSH'ing
into the machines now, but that is just for debugging and testing things
out -- for deployment, I would probably never log into the machines.

/Simon

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