Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (47 mails)

[Uwe Gansert <ug@xxxxxxx>]

On Montag, 19. November 2007, Hougaard wrote:

>   - if I use the "<file>/tmp/answer_hostname</file>", what is the format
> of the answer file?? just an empty text file with the answer or?

it's a textfile with only the string of the answer. In case of a boolean 
it's "true" or "false" (without quotes), in case of textentries it's the 
exact string that was entered by the user.

>   - what about the value to be exchanged? should it be empty, or will any
> predefined value be exchanged with the one asked for?

does not matter. Empty or not, it will be replaced.

>   - Will it be possible to answer serveral "paths" with the same
> question?? eg. below

unfortunately not. That's a design bug I did there. I'll fix that in the 
future somehow without breaking compatibilty

>       <ask>
>      <path>arkmanager,dbpassword</path>
>      <path>ca_mgm,password</path>
>      <question>Type Password</question>
>      <stage>initial</stage>
>      <default>Type in your password here</default>
>      </ask>
>
>       or is there, a more clever solution to such a question?

with 10.3 you could change the profile via script but with OES2 there is no 
really clever solution other than write a script and do the changes to the 
system by yourself with it.

>   - How about the password... is it possible to get this read from an
> clear text string? (I'm installing OES2, and there are several passwords
> and some are written in clear text, and some ain't)

if you need the password in an encrypted way, then you have to <ask> the 
user to enter it encrypted (*haha* - good one) or you encrypt it via script 
and write it to the correct position in the system.

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ciao, Uwe Gansert

Uwe Gansert, Server Technologies Team
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