[HN Gopher] uyuni - open-source configuration and infrastructure...
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       uyuni - open-source configuration and infrastructure management
        
       Author : gjvc
       Score  : 24 points
       Date   : 2023-07-17 18:58 UTC (4 hours ago)
        
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 (TXT) w3m dump (www.uyuni-project.org)
        
       | mdaniel wrote:
       | https://www.uyuni-project.org/uyuni-docs/en/uyuni/quickstart...
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       | > Passwords must be at at least seven characters in length, and
       | must not contain spaces, single or double quotation marks (' or
       | "), exclamation marks (!), or dollar signs ($)
       | 
       | bahahahahaaha, whaaaaat is going on here?!
       | 
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       | 
       | In an effort to be constructive, previously:
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31115254 (60 pt, 7 comments)
        
         | rad_gruchalski wrote:
         | Guessing: it is probably used in shell commands and there's no
         | intent to handle escaping.
         | 
         | Okay, guessing less: https://github.com/uyuni-
         | project/uyuni/blob/88b6b3cf25a2fd6b....
         | 
         | By the way: 83k+ commits and 15k+ tags. There are seven
         | programming languages in the main repository. Sounds
         | impenetrable. PRs merged with failing tests and developers not
         | following their own requirements, example:
         | https://github.com/uyuni-
         | project/uyuni/pull/7243#issuecommen....
         | 
         | This commit is interesting: https://github.com/uyuni-
         | project/uyuni/blame/df29070c58a9a1b.... It fixes the password
         | printed to logs which existed on the main branch for about a
         | year.
        
       | gorkish wrote:
       | Kinda sucks that a distro neutral configuration manager would
       | mandate that it has to run on SuSE. Most people who actually need
       | CM don't want to take another major vendor through compliance
       | just to roll out a tool.
       | 
       | In any case, "machines" are well trodden ground. It's all the
       | random "smart" network devices and "cloud services" that make
       | documenting and auditing configuration absolute tedium today.
        
       | jeffcox wrote:
       | I understand the desire to flee Ansible before the IBM
       | shittification completes, but anything based on Salt is not the
       | way.
       | 
       | Needing a "master" node that can lose sync or orphan managed
       | nodes it forgets about is a show stopper for any project with
       | meaningful hardware churn.
        
         | OJFord wrote:
         | I'm not at all a fan of Ansible but I must have missed
         | something here - has IBM somehow bought/taken over Ansible?
        
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