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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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