Package: fai-client Version: 4.0.8~deb7u1 Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer, Currently, if $FAI_ACTION is install, and the installation fails, bash is run on the computer to be installed. This is not always ideal, however, since some administrators might want to lock down local computers as much as possible. Say that the BIOS is password-protected, booting from external media is disallowed except for PXE network boot, physical access to the computer is restricted except for keyboard and mouse. Then ideally, FAI should be able to perform an unattended installation (even triggered remotely without the administrator in front of the computer) without a user that has access to keyboard, mouse and screen being able to interfere except maybe to abort it. If the installation works properly, this is possbile with current FAI, but if for some reason the installation fails, FAI will fall back into a root shell without any password prompt or the like. For debugging, this is obviously very helpful, but for the situation outlined above, it might not be. Therefore, it would be nice if it were possible to specify the action taken on installation failure. Perhaps through configuration, but also a very simple hook that could exec something else would probably suffice. It would be great if this could be implemented. Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
