On Sat, Aug 27, 2016 at 03:04:06PM +0200, Evgeni Golov wrote:
> > Shouldn't debian follow the scheme used by Fedora/CentOS to set the root
> > password?
> > 
> > Or at least generate a default random password?
> 
> I must admit I see no value in having a password in container.
> Debian shipped a patch to set a random password (instead of "root"), which 
> now has been replaced with the patch that was accepted upstream.
> Upstream plans to drop all passwords and let the user change it if needed 
> using lxc-attach.
> 
> > The extra actions needed to set a root password after the installation
> > of the image are not completely obvious.
> 
> I hoped to have this documented in the README, were the steps not enough?

Ping? I'd love to move forward here ;)
Are the instructions (using lxc-attach) in README.Debian OK for you,
or would you love to have something different as the solution?

Regards
Evgeni

Reply via email to