[provision] Root credentials for the nodes

[Andrey Grebennikov]

There are several customers who want to have access to the nodes from outside after the deployment.
Moreover, they would like to specify root credentials before the deployment.
First could be done by improving the kickstart snippet sshd_auth_pubkey_only with "PasswordAuthentication yes" option.
For root credentials - it should be definitely another option in the kickstart file for the node.

[Mike Scherbakov (mihgen)]

Hi Andrey, thanks for failing a bug about it. We actually have blueprint which is very similar to what you request: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/fuel/+spec/password-for-console-login. Please take a look, and provide your comments there, if it would work for customers.

The basic idea is that we already have an ability for users to specify ssh public key on Settings tab, which will be distributed among slave nodes, so allowing external ssh access by using private/public keypair. We did not want to enable password authx for security reasons.
However it's still needed for server console access, and that's what blueprint is about. Please let us know your and customers' opinion on the feature.

Thanks!