Description of problem: Currently it *appears* that if you just press enter through the MySQL password prompts in packstack then a password is auto-generated for you. I didn't notice this at first but it came to my attention because later when running 'quantum-server-setup --plugin openvswitch' I was prompted to enter the MySQL root password and had no idea what it was. I eventually found that the password appeared in /root/.my.cnf and appears to be randomly generated. This appears to be a function of these settings: "VALIDATION_FUNC" : validate.validateStringNotEmpty, "DEFAULT_VALUE" : uuid.uuid4().hex[:16] I think the user should be forced to provide a MySQL password if we expect them to be able to recall it later. I guess alternatively move to documentation and we will have to guide user to look for it in ~/.my.cnf of the user that ran packstack each time we need them to enter it. Additional Information: openstack-packstack-2012.2.2-0.5.dev318.el6ost.noarch
We're implementing a feature that will generate an answer file while in interactive mode https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=906410 Once done the location of the mysql root password will be available there. Moving this to docs so it can be documented.