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
