The most simple solution on the older SuSE 8 versions is to do a postinstall script with a perl command to insert the proper encrypted password into the shadow file. /usr/bin/perl -pi -e 's#^root:.*$#root:<your pw here>:12415:0:10000::::#' /etc/shadow If it has been fixed in the newer versions there is xml code to support setting the password. <users config:type="list"> <user> <encrypted config:type="boolean">true</encrypted> <user_password>your pw here</user_password> <username>root</username> </user> </users> -----Original Message----- From: Nicholas DeClario [mailto:nick@demandred.dyndns.org] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 2004 2:43 PM To: suse-autoinstall@suse.com Subject: [suse-autoinstall] Setting a default root password 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 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-help@suse.com