Hi Markus, On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 04:54:57PM +0100, Markus Uhlmann wrote: > we are currently setting up a cluster using fai. > we finally got to the state where we go through the installation and > boot into a working system. > > the problem then is that *sometimes* the superuser on the newly > installed client has no password; therefore it is impossible to "ssh" > into the system, although the network is up after reboot (e.g. "ping" > from outside sees the client). Maybe an easy workaround to simplify the testing would be to allow key-based ssh to the clients and copy the ssh-Key during the FAI-installation? With that, at least an ssh into the system would work directly...
Axel
