I wrote a parser func that relies on mkpasswd on the master ages ago:
http://pastie.org/pastes/222996
## mkpasswd("password", "12345678")
# needs an 8-char salt *always*
module Puppet::Parser::Functions
newfunction(:mkpasswd, :type => :rvalue) do |args|
%x{/usr/bin/mkpasswd -H MD5 #{args[0]
On 2 Oct 2008, at 18:01, Geoff Newell wrote:
> I'm working on a turnkey Linux system where the post build config is
> handled with puppet.
> One of the unique constraints with a turnkey system is that
> passwords are essentially set at build time and then stay fixed for
> the life of the p
I've done that on openbsd systems with something like this:
exec { "setpass $name":
onlyif => "grep '^$name:\*' /etc/master.passwd",
command => "usermod -p '$pwstring' $name",
require => User[$name],
}
Note that the onlyif on this command is intended to set the password
only on accounts th
