Hello, > On Sunday, 11 January 2015 2:27 PM, Peter Robinson wrote: >>> Earlier in the discussions I was told that this is not really an issue: in >>> production, about every server with remote access also has a KVM. >> >> Often not the case in small business or third party hosted environments. >> Without remote ssh, box is unmanageable. >> >> Even if you want to do key-based authentication rather than password, you >> still need to use password initially to get the key onto the remote box. > > If you use cloud-init you can specify an initial public key that it > inserts against, or even auto enrol it in a central auth system like > IPA and hence not ever need a password.
So, the major issue(or blocker should we say?) is the virtualized deployments. If there is no solution in sight, maybe last resort is to enable remote root login, possibly in the '%post' install section of the kick-start file. Does it seem like an appropriate solution? --- Regards -Prasad http://feedmug.com -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
