Re: sysinstall v2

[David Rhodus <drhodus@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday, September 3, 2003, at 07:08 PM, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> 	rsync, definitely.  cfengine, probably not.  ppp is already part
> 	of the base system.
>
> 	Another thing comes to mind in regards the installation options...
> 	simply having DHCP+sshd running can be very useful.  The new
> 	installer (lets not call it sysinstall v2, please! I hate sysinstall).
> 	Er.  The new installer ought to have a single-press option to get
> 	an IP with DHCP and run sshd, and it should generate a random root
> 	password and present both the random root password and the IP address
> 	on the console/web-page/whatever.  The same password could be used
> 	for web-enabled installation.  I am not overly concerned with security
> 	at installation time but I don't want the machine to be left wide open
> 	when you select any of the network options either.

Why not forget DHCP as it needs to die anyways and look at 
Rendevous/zeroconf
functionality added not just to the installer but all together....


-DR