Hi
I have an RPM package which will install and I need to get the Username and Password for root user and write it to a config file.
I can have another script file through which I can get user input and install RPM and then write to the config file, but I want to get user input and install rpm from one file.
I need one file that I can distribute it and does above things. How to do that?
Madhukar
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 17:35:22 -0700 MGandra@diskeeper.com wrote:
Hi
I have an RPM package which will install and I need to get the Username and Password for root user and write it to a config file.
Why on earth for?
I can have another script file through which I can get user input and install RPM and then write to the config file, but I want to get user input and install rpm from one file.
You should never ask for input when installing packages.
Perhaps you could have the application ask for configuration the first time it's run?
I need one file that I can distribute it and does above things. How to do that?
I would suggest backing up and looking at your higher level goals and see if there is some better way to solve them.
kevin
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 05:35:22PM -0700, MGandra@diskeeper.com wrote:
I have an RPM package which will install and I need to get the Username and Password for root user and write it to a config file.
This is a very bad idea. It's a massive security hole, and it will break / won't work in all sorts of automated / GUI installation scenarios.
Nevertheless, I did once work on an RPM for a proprietary database and in that RPM we had to ask for a license key to be entered during RPM installation. It does just work to read from stdin in the %post script.
It was still a bad idea ...
Rich.
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