Dear all, Ubuntu's patched network-console can retrieve a public key from a fixed and secure location, which allows one to log in the installer without pre-defined password (such as "r00tme" in the example preseed file). I am not aware of problems arising from this patch, and Colin Watson was quite postitive in 2008 about applying merging it in Debian. Would that be possible ? I can help the preparation of the update if needed.
In this bug report, a more extensive patch also was proposed by Kyle Moffett. It has functions that are off-topic for network-console, and that can be taken care of by the 'cloud-init' package that I hope will be uploaded to Debian soon. (See the debian-python mailing list archives in March). I propose to simply merge Ubuntu and Debian's difference, which would provide enough functionality to close this bug. Please let me know if I can help. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
