RHEV 3.2 need ability to add hypervisors without providing root password

Solution In Progress - Updated -

Issue

  • 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.
  • How can I add hosts to RHEV without using a root password?

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.2

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