[Freeipmi-devel] Re: [Freeipmi-users] bmc-autoconfig: drop for 0.5.0 release?

[Anand Babu Periasamy]

Al Chu writes:
> > Can you please add the best SOL default config to the template?
>
> This is my point.  If you guys aren't interested in maintaining bmc-
> autoconfig along w/ bmc-config, and I don't want to maintain it, and (it
> seems) no one uses it, then we should get rid of it!! :-)  

I am not asking you to maintain it. I only requested you to add SOL
settings, because you wrote the SOL. No worries we will take care of it.

> > It configures with PLAIN-TEXT passwords which is supported on all
> > systems. I would consider cipher settings as advanced and recommend
> > bmc-config instead.
>
> That's my point A.B.  Cipher settings are advanced and necessary for
> SOL.  Most users wouldn't want to touch them.  So bmc-autoconfig should
> handle it.  Why would you leave it to bmc-config?

bmc-autoconfig's goal was to do basic known default settings to get a
system fully functional. Once the user is confident that IPMI is
accessible and basic commands work, he/she can fiddle more on top of
it. If SOL setting is so advanced, I would rather skip SOL all
together for bmc-autoconfig. Alternatively I don't see setting cipher
algorithm to NONE as that advanced. I will see what I can do.

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