On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 5:24 AM, Rob McBroom <mailingli...@skurfer.com> wrote: > > On 2009-Apr-28, at 5:51 PM, josbal wrote: > >> After reading through all the documentation I can find and reading the >> "Pulling Strings with Puppet" book i understand how easy it is to >> create and maintain users and groups across all puppet clients, but >> how do you define the passwords that go along with those users? > > > You can get an example for your particular system by running this as > root: > > ralsh user username
Note that to read an existing password hash, you'll probably need to be root on most OSes. This is the case at least for OS X. > > There's probably a way to generate the encrypted string without the > account actually existing first, but I don't know it. > > A related question I have: How do you assign an initial password when > the account is created, but prevent Puppet from making that the > password every 30 minutes (should the user want to change it)? > > -- > Rob McBroom > <http://www.skurfer.com/> > > > > > > > > -- Nigel Kersten nig...@google.com System Administrator Google, Inc. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
