On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 09:50:17PM +0000, Nicholas Westlake wrote:
 Greetings,
 
 I attempted to use virt-sysprep however it failed because the
 .ssh/authorized_keys file of a user had been (purposely) set immutable.
 Would this be considered a bug? An obvious work around would be not to
 clone vms with such files of course. 
Yes, this is a bug.  virt-sysprep should do something other than fail,
although I'm not sure what.  Can you file it in BZ?  What would be
better behaviour?  What was it trying to do -- inject ssh keys or
remove user accounts?
Rich.
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