Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (47 mails)

["Hougaard" <flhou@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks all

... but I can still pull out a couple of questions ;)

My primary idea is to make a installpoint (nfs), where I PXE-boot and
install the servers needed - so if I make a script adding the password
to a file, could I do as follows?

     <ask>
      <path>arkmanager,dbpassword</path>
      <file>nfs://10.0.0.1/install/autoyast/answer_password</file>    

    </ask>

if the same answer is valid for 2 values in the same section (eg.
locator_context & server_context both in the section group_context in
novell-dhcp) do i need to make 2 answersection there, or will the
following work?

    <ask>
     
<path>novell-dhcp,group_context,locator_context,server_context</path>
      <file>nfs://10.0.0.1/install/autoyast/answer_password</file>    

    </ask>
    
Again - thanks

Regards
Flemming
 
> > > Uwe Gansert <ug@xxxxxxx> 19. november 2007 16:48:41 >>>
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
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
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