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!

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