re: comments on installation instructions

[matthew green <mrg%eterna23.net@localhost>]

Greg Troxel writes:
> 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.

there's a whole man page descripting it - creds_msdos(8). :)


.mrg.