Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2020 19:32:39 +0300 From: Mehmet Erol Sanliturk <m.e.sanliturk@gmail.com> To: Mason Loring Bliss <mason@blisses.org> Cc: Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 12.2-BETA3 Now Available Message-ID: <CAOgwaMt4pbcLM8T8qfwovvRM3nU_UzjpWuK8LKbkzhb706WUMQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20200929153502.GH7685@blisses.org> References: <20200926010843.GI26726@FreeBSD.org> <20200929153502.GH7685@blisses.org>
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On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 6:35 PM Mason Loring Bliss <mason@blisses.org> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 26, 2020 at 01:08:43AM +0000, Glen Barber wrote: > > > Note regarding arm SD card images: For convenience for those without > > console access to the system, a freebsd user with a password of > > freebsd is available by default for ssh(1) access. > > Vaguely related... Something I've been wondering recently is whether > there'd be support for the idea of converting /etc/master.passwd, > /etc/passwd, /etc/rc.conf, and /etc/ssh/sshd_config in install media to > symlinks pointing into /tmp/bsdinstall_etc. > > As of today I use mount_unionfs to modify these so I can fire up sshd > inside the installer image live environment, but it does seem like a missed > opportunity to make sshd available usefully out of the box, especially > since the bits are all there already - it's just not possible to make use > of them without some trickery because of the immutable configs. > > -- > Mason Loring Bliss (( If I have not seen as far as others, it is because > mason@blisses.org )) giants were standing on my shoulders. - Hal > Abelson > My opinion is that , instead of specifying a fixed password in install .iso or .img files , ask these password(s) to installer during install . In that way , live images can be used any time safely because password(s) is(are) unknown beforehand and is(are) only valid upto end of the current session . Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
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