Sorry, kinda late on this one, but seems some easy methods left out. Use grub-md5-crypt $ grub-md5-crypt Password: Retype password: $1$nS12E0$nmw5cTWJLwW7KujMpApKh0 <-- PUT THE RESULT IN YOUR MANIFEST
or use the openssl command $ openssl passwd -1 Password: Verifying - Password: $1$SF8zTedH$rfFKDI1pS2ljMRP14tYTj0 <-- PUT THE RESULT IN YOUR MANIFEST On Aug 2, 3:52 pm, Jfro <jason.shir...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm new to Puppet but have searched this group and Puppet docs for how to > set up user passwords using puppet. I haven't found a clear answer about > setting user passwords. > > I understand that it is a security risk to send plain text passwords via > Puppet. However, for my use case (setting up one "student" user on a school > computer lab) I think the risk is acceptable. > > Can someone walk me through the steps of sending out a password to all my > computers for user "student." > > My puppetmaster and puppets are running Ubuntu Lucide 10.4 LTS. > > Thanks for getting a newbie off the ground! -- 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.