[lxc-devel] default root password has to be random in default debian template

[Thomas Moschny]

2014-08-20 18:32 GMT+02:00 Michael H. Warfield <mhw at wittsend.com>:
> Yes, it does apply to more templates (but not all templates).
>
> This has been discussed before.  Please look at the Fedora and CentOS
> templates for how we handle them there.  In those cases, it's
> configurable and supports templating.  It's up to the other template
> maintainers if they want to pull that over and there are issues with the
> download template and its defaults (if you use the download template to
> pull a Fedora rootfs, you still get root:root).  I'm not familiar with
> who the maintainer of the Debian template is.  I've only contributed to
> the Fedora, CentOS, and OpenSUSE templates.

This issue has been reported as a security bug against the Fedora packages:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1132001

It would be nice if we could get that fixed for all templates. Instead
of letting different template maintainers fix that in different ways,
we should probably factor this out into a common routine?

Regards,
Thomas