Re: [suse-autoinstall] Setting a default root password

8 Sep 2004

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Hey guys.  During my auto install I want a default root password to be
To obtain iE*obscured** from the command line, you can use the Perl crypt()
function to generate the 13 character hash string.  This uses standard DES
encryption (one-way) for password hashes.

Example for password "cluster" and arbitrary salt "95":
   $  perl -e 'print crypt("cluster", "95"),"\n"'
   95G9p0q.CBtl.

-Carl Pecinovsky

             "Randy Dees"                                                  
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<quote who="Nicholas DeClario">
put
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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.
<users config:type="list">
      <user>
        <encrypted config:type="boolean">true</encrypted>
        <user_password>iE*obscured**</user_password>
        <username>root</username>
      </user>
    </users>

where iE*obscured** is obviously replaced with the root passwd hash you've
set somewhere.  It's also possible to generate this hash from the command
line; I didn't do that research for you here.
...
Am I missing something obvious?  Is there anyway this can be done?  Any
help would be appreciated.
Thanks,
           -Nick
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