Re: [PATCH datacenter-manager 0/6] improve handling of base url and certificate fingerprint for auto-installer gui

["Lukas Wagner" <l.wagner@proxmox.com>]

On Wed May 27, 2026 at 2:52 PM CEST, Shannon Sterz wrote:
> the goal of this series is to make the base url and certificate
> fingerprint handling a bit more intuitive for the auto installer gui.
> the first couple of patches allow the ui to query the host's
> certificate fingerprint. this information is then used to first set
> the initial values for a new answer and also to format the preparation
> command.
>
> Shannon Sterz (6):
>   server: api: certificates: allow anybody to query the certificate info
>   pdm-client: add function to query the PDM hosts certificate info
>   ui: remotes: auto-installer: set pdm_origin() as placeholder not tip
>   ui: remotes: auto-installer: use pdm_origin() to set initial pdm url
>   ui: auto-installer: load fingerprint and use it as initial value
>   ui: auto-installer: use info from answer to format preparation command
>
>  lib/pdm-client/src/lib.rs                     | 12 +++++-
>  server/src/api/nodes/certificates.rs          |  2 +-
>  ui/src/remotes/auto_installer/mod.rs          |  8 ++++
>  .../prepared_answer_add_wizard.rs             |  7 ++--
>  .../auto_installer/prepared_answer_form.rs    | 31 ++++++++------
>  .../auto_installer/prepared_answers_panel.rs  | 41 ++++++++++++++++++-
>  ui/src/remotes/auto_installer/token_panel.rs  | 20 +++++++++
>  7 files changed, 101 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>
> --
> 2.47.3

Tested-by: Lukas Wagner <l.wagner@proxmox.com>
Reviewed-by: Lukas Wagner <l.wagner@proxmox.com>

If exposing the entire certificate info is deemed to dangererous, I
suppose we could add a new endpoint which just returns the fingerprint.
But to me, after checking the fields of the CertificateInfo type, it
seems fine as is.