I suppose I could use a cron to pull out the hash and put it into a file to be read by puppet. On Monday, June 25, 2012 9:54:49 AM UTC-4, R.I. Pienaar wrote: > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "R.I.Pienaar" <r...@devco.net> > > To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com > > Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 2:53:45 PM > > Subject: Re: [Puppet Users] Using generate() to mine a shadow file hash > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Rob B." <rbenc...@gmail.com> > > > To: puppet-users@googlegroups.com > > > Sent: Monday, June 25, 2012 2:52:51 PM > > > Subject: Re: [Puppet Users] Using generate() to mine a shadow file > > > hash > > > > > > > > > Hey Christopher, > > > > > > Thanks for the reply. I will give this a try this morning. As for > > > your question about why we want to mine it, we want to change the > > > root password in out password manager software, have that change > > > the > > > root password on the puppet master, and then have puppet distribute > > > the hash everywhere. It makes it easy to keep a single root for all > > > the systems we want it to manage. > > > > quite sure this wont work, the puppet master does not run as root and > > so your generate wont have access to read shadow file. > > > > > you could use sudo of course, but it doesnt seem like a great idea :) >
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