Setting ROOTPW not properly documented in fai-guide?

2010-02-25 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
Hi, When trying to figure out hot to change the default rootpassword of installed clients by just changing the variable "ROOTPW" in a class .var file, I believe that the information in the fai-guide and comments in the configs is not helpful to get a new password. The only things I found that wor

Re: Setting ROOTPW not properly documented in fai-guide?

2010-02-25 Diskussionsfäden Toomas Tamm
Hello! I can confirm that it works at least under FAI 3.1.8 (etch). I prepare my encrypted passwords from the plain text with makepasswd --clearfrom $PLAINFILE --crypt-md5 --randomseed NNN | awk '{ print $2 }' (NN is an integer) and store them in a closely guarded file. During FAI inst

Re: Setting ROOTPW not properly documented in fai-guide?

2010-02-25 Diskussionsfäden Henning Sprang
On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 3:12 PM, Toomas Tamm wrote: > Maybe you have modified that script, or it is not run at all in your > setup? No - you misunderstood me a little bit :) The question was not if/how it works with mkpasswd - I got this working as you write it - just with less security as it's

FAI on a thumper

2010-02-25 Diskussionsfäden Carsten Aulbert
Hi all we are currently trying FAI 3.3.3 on a thumper (Sun Fire x4500) but right now it does not like it too much: [...] Executing: parted -s /dev/sdy unit chs print free Executing: parted -s /dev/sdz unit TiB print Executing