On 12 Jan 2015, at 03:56, P J P wrote:
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.
Not just virtualized deployments, but also in remote installs on bare
metal.
--
Mike Pinkerton