<quote who="Nicholas DeClario">
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.
<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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