Clay Baenziger wrote:
> I don't see a custom /etc/X11/gdm/custom.conf, but shouldn't the LiveCD
> automatically login as root? Apparently, GDM only supports automatic login
> of non-root users (see http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=475477).
> Thanks to Brain Cameron for the pointer above. He suggests perhaps
> modifying the pam.conf to allow root to login without a password only
> locally would work okay?
> 

Yes, it's supposed to, that's work we haven't done yet.

> If sshd is running automatically though a root password would be good to
> have for sure, and so we should have a root password specified somewhere
> (otherwise, someone could do all sorts of stuff while Solaris is being
> installed).
> 
> To prevent a startup delay due to not shipping a "default" SSH key, could
> the SSH key generation be done in the background by sysidcfg? The only
> problem is the SSH SMF manifest doesn't have a dependency on the keys
> being present to start sshd, which could be a problem doing that, if the
> machine is fast enough. Otherwise, it would be trivial to run the keygen
> backgrounded as the sshd file from
> /onnv/onnv-gate/usr/src/cmd/ssh/etc/sshd (which installs to
> /lib/svc/method/sshd) should just run the keygen in the background with &
> appended to the create_keys line.
> 

Yes, something like that might be done; I'm on vacation for the next 
week so if someone has time to look into it, that would be helpful.  One 
thing that occurs to me, though, is that we're basically no-op'ing sysid 
on the CD, so what we probably would need to do is insert an a new 
service to run the keygen, and have it include a dependent for network/ssh.

Dave

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