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Re: [opensuse-autoinstall] Password encryption
  • From: Simon Crute <scrute@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 6 Jul 2007 10:36:15 +0100
  • Message-id: <200707061036.15203.scrute@xxxxxxxxxx>
On Thursday 21 June 2007 19:45, Alan Mosca wrote:
>  More specifically I would like to get whatever the root password is in
> /etc/shadow and put it in autoyast.xml. I don't need to decrypt it. Is
> there a way of doing this?

Hi, 

If I understand the question correctly, you want to create the hashed value in 
an autoyast script so you can add that to /etc/shadow. Is that correct ? 

If so, try something like
  echo $user:$userpw | chpasswd





-- 
Simon Crute
IS&T. 
Bracknell.
UK.
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