[rhinstaller/anaconda/pulls/164 master] Generate random hostnames

Martin Kolman mkolman at redhat.com
Thu Jul 2 12:37:47 UTC 2015


On Thu, 2015-07-02 at 07:51 +0000, vpodzime wrote:
> Don't take me wrong, but I think it would be better to just ship some 
> simple script that would generate and set such hostname and make it's 
> usage a recommended first step in the FreeIPA deployment guide/docs 
> instead of making things more complicated in anaconda.
Are we talking about kickstart installations, as there is not yet any
GUI for joining a domain during the installation ? In that case the
realm[0] command might be changed to trigger a random hostname
generation if it is used. Or maybe something like network --random
-hostname ?

[0] https://github.com/rhinstaller/pykickstart/blob/master/docs/kicksta
rt-docs.rst#realm


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