Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (109 mails)

["Ing. Wolfgang Skabrond" <skabrond@xxxxxx>]

Hi Nick!

I'm setting the root password with a postinstall script. First, you
have to get the encrypted password you want to set for "root" from a
/etc/shadow file (the second field in this file). Then specify a
postinstall-script doing this:

    usermod -p your-encrypted-password-from-shadow root

This works for me in 8.2, 9.0, 9.1

Best regards
Ing. Wolfgang Skabrond
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--- Nicholas DeClario schrieb am 08.09.2004, 22:43 ---

> Hey guys.  During my auto install I want a default root password to be put
> in place.  I checked numberous documentation and searched quite a bit and
> couldn't come up with anything.  I was going to just do something like
> 'echo "password" | passwd root --stdin' in a post-install script but the
> 'passwd' included in SuSE does not support the --stdin option I've seen in
> the past.  I would prefer not to hack up passwd to add this functionality
> as well.

> Am I missing something obvious?  Is there anyway this can be done?  Any
> help would be appreciated.

> Thanks,
>         -Nick