Greetings,

 

Thanks to everyone that pointed me at various things. It’s helped point me in a workable direction, I believe.

 

However, what would be even more useful are getting sign offs for some bugs:

Bug 14533 - koha-create --use-db option shouldn't create any db or db user 
https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14533

 

These three bugs would let me set environment variables to build a temporary password file to then setup access to a pre-existing remote database.

 

Granted, there might still be problems:

 

Which tangentially touches on:

Though, there is nothing to sign off yet for this one.

 

I’d prefer to not custom roll a distribution, but rather seek community assistance in pushing these bugs through. However due to time constraints, I probably will roll one, even if it is probably not the best way to roll one (https://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/Building_Debian_Packages_-_The_Easy_Way).

 

GPML,

Mark Tompsett