[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk kickstart setup

[lee]

On 02/27/2012 05:31 PM, Jonathan DeHaan wrote:
>
>
> On 02/27/2012 02:36 AM, lee wrote:
>> On 02/24/2012 05:17 PM, Jonathan DeHaan wrote:
>>> Lee,
>>>
>>> There is no default root password. All Red Hat/Centos/Fedora
>>> distributions ask for a root password during install, and do not
>>> permit a blank root password. By setting the root password in the
>>> kickstart, you are then no longer required to provide one during the
>>> install. From a certain perspective, Spacewalk is giving you the
>>> opportunity to set the default root password in the kickstart, but for
>>> security reasons there is not a built-in default.
>>>
>>> You could save a few keystrokes by cloning your kickstart, which will
>>> keep the root password from the original kickstart, but you need an
>>> original to start with for that to be helpful.
>>>
>>> Jonathan
>>>
>>> On 02/24/2012 03:45 AM, lee wrote:
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> When I create a new kickstart in spacewalk, it asks for a root
>>>> password
>>>> for that kickstart, to be set. Is there away of having a default root
>>>> password, that is set automatically without having to enter it.
>>>>
>>>> When you click the finish button it doesn't set a 'default' root
>>>> password?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>> Lee
>>>>
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>> Hi
>>
>>
>> Im creating a number of kickstarts for different boxes. some of which
>> are similar. Ja, got the cloning bit, but it seems that spacewalk could
>> do with a feature that sets a default root pass for all machines that is
>> kickstarted and registered to say a specific spacewalk server???
>>
>> We most use secure keys as admin logins, and never really the password.
>> So the password can be complex, and/or cycled.
>>
>> any ideas on this?
>>
>> Regards
>> Lee
>>
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> Lee,
>
> For security reasons, I doubt that such a feature would be accepted
> into the main SW tree. If you have the time and skills to create such
> a patch, you should check in with spacewalk-devel to make sure that it
> will be accepted before you spend the time.
>
> If you really are creating so many kickstarts that typing in the root
> password twice for each is a problem, then you should look at using
> the API. There is a method called 'createProfile' which will create a
> new kickstart profile, and one of the required parameters is
> rootPassword. You should then be able to reuse the call to
> createProfile with the same root password as many times as you need.
>
> -- Jonathan DeHaan
> Linux Systems Engineer
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Hi..

Thanks  Jonathan. I've been looking at exactly what you are talking about.

But I will drop devel list a mail to see if its worth my time.

Regards
Lee