What I tend to do is change the password of the account I'm managing # passwd user
then copy it from /etc/shadow into the manifest. But then we have very few local user accounts. Regards Martin On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Robin Lee Powell <rlpow...@digitalkingdom.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 03, 2009 at 03:49:18PM +1300, Sebastian Krueger wrote: >> now the problem is, that the foofoo password is expected to be in >> encrypted form. Is there anyway to get "foofoo" password in >> encrypted form? >> >> Cleartext: foofoo >> Cypertext: ??? >> >> I've found references to mkpasswd, but this does not exist in >> SLES, and doesn't generate Blowfish passwords anyway. I've tried a >> variety of Perl one-liners, but can't seem to get the right >> combination. > > Blowfish? I've never heard of anyone using that for passwords. > Standard Linux IME is md5. > > mkpasswd *is* in fact the standard tool for this purpose, and it can > produce a variety of formats: > > $ mkpasswd -m help > Available methods: > des standard 56 bit DES-based crypt(3) > md5 MD5 > sha-256 SHA-256 > sha-512 SHA-512 > > -Robin > > -- > They say: "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons." > And I'm thinking: "Does it even occur to you to try for something > other than the default outcome?" -- http://shorl.com/tydruhedufogre > http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/ > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
