On July 20, 2022 6:06:45 AM GMT+02:00, Adriaan <[email protected]> wrote:
>I am testing autoinstall for a VPS hosted in a datacenter. By using an
>OpenBSD native VM on my desktop
>I got all my issues with 'install.conf' and 'install.site' solved.
>
>To provide some access control I created an '.htaccess' file for my
>local httpd server at 192.168.222.242 and
>for my external webserver xyz.nl
>
>The retrieval of 'install.conf' as well as the autopartitioning
>template are successful:
>
> Response file location? [http://192.168.222.10/install.conf]
>https://wodan:[email protected]/install.conf
> Fetching https://wodan:[email protected]/install.conf
> Performing non-interactive install...
> Terminal type? [vt220] vt220
> [snip]
>
> URL to autopartitioning template for disklabel? [none]
>https://wodan:[email protected]/7.1/amd64/df-us-40gb.txt
> Fetching https://wodan:[email protected]/7.1/amd64/df-us-40gb.txt
>
>So far so good....
>
>However the installing of the sets fails with a 'not a valid hostname'
>
> Location of sets? (disk http nfs or 'done') [http] http
> HTTP proxy URL? (e.g. 'http://proxy:8080', or 'none') [none] none
> HTTP Server? (hostname, list#, 'done' or '?') [192.168.222.242]
>wodan:[email protected]
> 'wodan:[email protected]' is not a valid hostname.
>
>The same error occurs when I want to install the custom site* sets
>from my non-local xyz.nl server
>
> HTTP Server? (hostname, list#, 'done' or '?') [192.168.222.242]
>wodan:[email protected]
> 'wodan:[email protected]' is not a valid hostname.
>
>So using an username and password for .htaccess control is accepted by
>bsd.rd for the 'install.conf' and
>autopartioning template, while it errors out when dealing with the install
>sets.
>
>The password '=ilovefreya=' has a leading and trailing '='. Tomorrow I
>will eliminate those '='s and see whether that helps.
See
https://github.com/openbsd/src/blob/636cc85955243f5226db2246a74229481ad6bac2/distrib/miniroot/install.sub#L1838
It seems we do not allow "@" either at the moment...
/Alexander
>
>Adriaan van Roosmalen
>
