[Puppet Users] updating user passwords with puppet

2009-04-06 Thread Thomas Bellman
Trevor Vaughan wrote: > Interesting, this still seems...odd, but it should work, though I'm > still skeptical of using a cipher versus a true one-way hash. The normal Unix crypt(3) method uses a variant of DES to make a one-way hash. Basically, you use the password as the key to encrypt a const

[Puppet Users] updating user passwords with puppet

2009-04-02 Thread Sebastian Krueger
Hi guys, I'm trying to update passwords in /etc/shadow with puppet. I've installed the ruby lib shadow library and am using the following sample puppet syntax: user { "seb": gid=> "30", ensure => present, membership => inclusive, groups