Passwords

[David Durr]

I need to understand how FOG uses passwords. Is there anyone who can help?

I spent most of a week getting FOG working on a couple of subnets, and I’m still not sure why passwords work the way they do.

I’ll be glad to write up whatever I find out. The forums are full of people confused about the issue.

[moss]

I don’t really understand what you’re asking, what passwords specifically? Although I cant recall many threads about confusion with passwords.

The only passwords I can think of are:
PXE menu passwords
Web interface passwords
AD/Fog Crypt password
SQL passwords

All of those are fairly straight forward to use/understand and require virtually no maintenance after initial installation.
I’ve encountered various issues on Fog whilst I’ve been using it, virtually none have been related to passwords.

[Tom Elliott]

[quote=“David Durr, post: 26807, member: 17319”]I need to understand how FOG uses passwords. Is there anyone who can help?

I spent most of a week getting FOG working on a couple of subnets, and I’m still not sure why passwords work the way they do.

I’ll be glad to write up whatever I find out. The forums are full of people confused about the issue.[/quote]

How does fog use passwords? Hmmmm,

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[]FOG GUI – Default user and password on initial install are:
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[]username: fog
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[]for logging into the GUI as well as during image creation tasks from PXE Menu, such as Quick Image
[]Version 1.0.0 also used on the iPXE menu for various functions where login would be needed instead of “PXE” set passwords.
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[]password: password
[]location: [url]http://<FOGSERVERIP>/fog/management[/url]
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[]MySQL – There are two usernames and passwords to be aware of.
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[]username: root
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[]used for WEB GUI to communicate with mysql natively
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[]password: SET AT INSTALL TIME, usually blank.
[]username: fogstorage
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[]used for STORAGE NODE Access so you have centralized information, but can keep nodes at different locations.
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[]password: SET AT INSTALL TIME, RANDOMIZED characters.
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[]Local System User within Linux
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[]username: fog
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[]Used for ftp information. FTP is used when uploading images or syncing images between nodes.
[]In versions prior to 1.0.0, FTP was also used in two forms, tftp transfers to create the PXE tasks, and upload of hosts.
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[]password: Version 1.0.0 sets as password for familiarity, prior set hash based on date of install and is randomized.
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[]Active Directory Username and Password
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[]Username depends on your AD setup.
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[]In Prior to V. 1.0.0 format of username had to be in <DOMAINNAME><USERNAME>.
[]In V 1.0.0 we only require the username, and it will fail if you have the format <DOMAINNAME><USERNAME>
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[]Password must be encrypted using the FOG Crypt package.
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[]This is found in the source folder of FOG under FOG Crypt. In V 1.0.0 it’s able to be downloaded through the client page.
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I hope this helps clarify things for people.

[David Durr]

Tom,

Thanks for your explanation. I thought the randomized TFTP password was a fogcrypt hash. I ended up doing a new install anyway. I’d done lots of learning and experimenting on the last install, so thought it was a good idea to reinstall before we rolled this out.

I can’t thank you guys enough for the work you’re doing. I’ll be making a donation, and I’m not a developer (not much of one anyway), but I’d be glad to help in any way I can.