Would really like to see this happen, specifically per hardware-type. In our case, that's what differentiates user/pass combos.
Adding a user/pass manually is simply not possible at scale. A parameter would be a brilliant solution!

This still isn't available with Foreman 1.11.

BMC & IPMI are generally used in larger environments, and adding the BMC password to every node is quite tedious and error prone. It would be great to have a way to automate this.

With hostgroup it's quite tricky, the thing is that hostgroup does not have interfaces since it does not make sense to share info like IP, MAC for more hosts. Maybe we could achieve that through global settings so if there's no password set it would inherit it from settings. Or if you need to have different password per hostgroup, then maybe smart variable or hostgroup parameter?

Marek Hulán wrote:

With hostgroup it's quite tricky, the thing is that hostgroup does not have interfaces since it does not make sense to share info like IP, MAC for more hosts. Maybe we could achieve that through global settings so if there's no password set it would inherit it from settings. Or if you need to have different password per hostgroup, then maybe smart variable or hostgroup parameter?

Would locations be easier to implement? Assigning default credentials per site would be useful for our use case.

smart variable and/or parameter would work even with locations, probably the best option then