Package: network-console Severity: wishlist When performing partially-automated virtual-server installations (using services such as Eucalyptus or Amazon EC2, for example), it's not really practical or secure to use password-based authentication for the installer.
Furthermore, such virtual server environments provide an automatic method of provisioning public SSH keys during the installation process via an HTTP URL. The Ubuntu guys seem to have a patch for this that never got merged: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-console/+bug/184108 For example, access to the following URL from an Amazon EC2 instance will retrieve the SSH public key assigned during instance creation. With the Ubuntu patch above I can just directly preseed this URL: http://169.254.169.254/2010-06-15//meta-data/public-keys/0/openssh-key Cheers, Kyle Moffett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100810204951.16254.81815.report...@philyra.exmeritus.com
