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Re: comments on installation instructions



Harold Gutch <logix%foobar.franken.de@localhost> writes:

> On Mon, Jan 01, 2024 at 07:22:31PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
>>   If I want to enable ssh over the network, so I can do setup on
>>   ethernet, if I don't have a monitor or a serial cable, what do I do?
>>   How do I stick in a root password, and how do I enable sshd and tell
>>   it to let root log in?
>
> You can do that with a file "creds.txt" on the FAT partition.  See
> /etc/rc.d/creds_msdos for details.  A few archs (evbarm, evbmips,
> riscv) have "creds_msdos=YES" in their default /etc/rc.conf .

Thanks.  I had no idea about that and added a brief description/pointer
to the HOWTO.


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