[Beaker-devel] Feedback regarding implementing BZ#989924

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at redhat.com
Mon Aug 26 02:31:26 UTC 2013


On 08/26/2013 12:17 PM, Amit Saha wrote:
> Regarding implementing [1], the two main changes are:
> 
> 1. Adding support for a new ks_meta option. For eg. <recipe ks_meta="auth='--useshadow --enablemd5'">
> 2. And having support for reading it in the template:
> 
> +{% if auth %}
> +auth {{ auth }}
> +{% endif %}
> 
> When the ks_meta option is not specified, the generated kickstart doesn't get a 'auth' command entry.
> 
> Does this look fine?

For older RHEL versions, we may want to keep the non-empty auth by
default. Work out when shadow and md5-or-better became the default, and
keep forcing them up until then. Alternatively, as a research-free
alternative, I'm happy to go with "keep the kickstart customisation for
RHEL3 and RHEL4, switch to using the anaconda defaults for RHEL5 and later".

Cheers,
Nick.

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Nick Coghlan
Red Hat Infrastructure Engineering & Development, Brisbane

Testing Solutions Team Lead
Beaker Development Lead (http://beaker-project.org/)


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