Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (101 mails)

[Bjorn Tore Sund <bjornts@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 22 Mar 2006 discip@xxxxxxx wrote:

> is there a way to set root's password throught autoinstall.xml?
> I put a stanza in for root, but it doesnt seem to take.
> If I try to do it with the gui, it tells me the user-defs conflict with an
> already existing user.

Here is what works for me:
    <users config:type="list">
      <user>
        <encrypted config:type="boolean">true</encrypted>
        <fullname>root er sjef</fullname>
        <gid>0</gid>
        <home>/root</home>
        <password_settings>
          <expire></expire>
          <flag></flag>
          <inact></inact>
          <max>10000</max>
          <min>0</min>
          <warn></warn>
        </password_settings>
        <shell>/bin/bash</shell>
        <uid>0</uid>
        <user_password>INSERT MD5-STRING OR EQUIV HERE</user_password>
        <username>root</username>
      </user>
    </users>

Note that you use the encrypted string, not the actual password.

Bjørn
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