"Lennart Sorensen" <lsore...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> writes: > On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 11:50:59PM +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote: >> Package: debian-installer >> Severity: wishlist >> >> On some system that I preseed-install, I don't want any root password >> set nor do I want a normal user account. I get access to the system via >> SSH, using a public-key that I populate using a late_command. > > So you want a system that you can not fix if it needs to prompt for a > root password to manually run fsck? There are after all a few times > where being able to login as root directly on the console is required. > Not allowing ssh with a pasword as root is a good diea (and the default > these days), but that does not mean you don't still need a root > password.
I will never have access to the console for these machines, so if it stops during boot I would just kill the machine and create a new one. The machines are created automatically and will do what it is intended to do until it is destroyed. If it crashes or dies mid-way, then a new machine will be created that hopefully will work better. I am SSH'ing into the machines now, but that is just for debugging and testing things out -- for deployment, I would probably never log into the machines. /Simon
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