On 2024-12-10 19:40:37 +0000 (+0000), Sean Mooney wrote: [...]
at the ptg we discussed finally just removing the file base password injection feature
https://etherpad.opendev.org/p/r.4f297ee4698e02c16c4007f7ee76b7c1#L541
i would prefer to actually do that instead of modify it to use sha512.
with that said we also accepted that we could just use oslo_utils.secretutils to optional support crypt package if installed if there was a strong objection to removing this code. are you raising such an objection? [...]
I'm not. Being neither a cloud operator nor Windows user, I'm unable to gauge the degree to which this functionality is useful. Thomas had indicated that it was the only option for setting initial admin passwords on new Windows guests (short of baking them into your images, I guess? or automatically enrolling them in something like Active Directory/LDAP maybe). I don't personally know what people who boot Windows in OpenStack clouds normally do. -- Jeremy Stanley