[Libguestfs] virt-sysprep and immutable files
Richard W.M. Jones
rjones at redhat.com
Sat Mar 12 19:11:31 UTC 2016
On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 09:50:17PM +0000, Nicholas Westlake wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I attempted to use virt-sysprep however it failed because the
> .ssh/authorized_keys file of a user had been (purposely) set immutable.
> Would this be considered a bug? An obvious work around would be not to
> clone vms with such files of course.
Yes, this is a bug. virt-sysprep should do something other than fail,
although I'm not sure what. Can you file it in BZ? What would be
better behaviour? What was it trying to do -- inject ssh keys or
remove user accounts?
Rich.
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