----- Original Message -----
I tried devmode this afternoon and it worked very well. I discussed
a few
nits with jlebon on #atomic, but thought I would mention them here.
- The generated root password can include similar characters l (letter L), 1
(number 1), O (upper-case letter O), 0 (number zero), etc. I got bit by
this when I tried to login to the cockpit interface. Perhaps we could
eventually use something like a series of dictionary words separated by a
certain character? (I found a discussion on StackOverflow [1] about this
potential problem.)
I'm thinking of just rerunning pwmake until it satisfies our criteria,
rather than either crafting passwords ourselves, or messing with the string
it outputs and reducing the entropy.
- I think we should include a string under the cockpit URL that says
something like "Login to the cockpit console with the username "root" and
the generated password above". If an intended audience is people who have
never used Linux, we should be fairly explicit with instructions right out
of the box.
Agreed, good idea.