- What is the nature and description of the request?
When adding a new hypervisor to RHEV 3.2 it is required that you supply the root password to setup the hypervisor. This is a security problem and these fields appear to be required. I have attempted to circumvent this by adding the engine's ssh pubkey to ~root/.ssh/authorized_keys on a new hypervisor and supplying a bogus password to the RHEV-M add host operation. This yields an authentication failure error.

- Why does the customer need this? (List the business requirements here)
Security policy prohibits distributing root passwords in this manner

- How would the customer like to achieve this? (List the functional
requirements here)
Ability to manually download public key from manager, then checkbox in Add Host dialogue box saying this was done so root password isn't necessary

- For each functional requirement listed in question 4, specify how Red Hat
and the customer can test to confirm the requirement is successfully
implemented.
Add host using pubkey as described in 4

- Is there already an existing RFE upstream or in Red Hat bugzilla?
No

- How quickly does this need resolved? (desired target release)
3.2.x or 3.3

- List the affected packages
rhevm