On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 02:23:54PM -0400, Nick Holland wrote: > On 10/09/14 13:21, Nux! wrote: > >Hello, > > > >I'm trying to get some scripts working which would take a password > >from stdin and set it for root. In Linux "passwd --stdin" is used, in > >FreeBSD "pw mod user root -h 0". How would I do this in OpenBSD? > > > >Thanks, Lucian > > > > in addition to the already provided tip... consider this: > > Disable root password logins completely. Change the (encrypted) password to > something nonsense or one or 13 "*"s, and use either sudo or SSH keys to get > root acceess. This has the added advantages of no one having "extra" access > by having root pw, no need to share/distribute root pw, etc. And unlike a > number of other Unixes, this works very nicely.
Ubuntu-style? :)
