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
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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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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" <randy@deesfamily .com> To suse-autoinstall@suse.com 09/08/2004 04:28 cc PM Subject Re: [suse-autoinstall] Setting a default root password <quote who="Nicholas DeClario"> 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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Hey guys, thanks for all the info and quick replies! I will give this a try shortly. Thanks! -Nick On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Carl Pecinovsky wrote:
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" <randy@deesfamily .com> To suse-autoinstall@suse.com 09/08/2004 04:28 cc PM Subject Re: [suse-autoinstall] Setting a default root password
Hey guys. During my auto install I want a default root password to be
<quote who="Nicholas DeClario"> 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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Hi Nick! I'm setting the root password with a postinstall script. First, you have to get the encrypted password you want to set for "root" from the /etc/shadow file (the second in this file. Then specify a postinstall-script doing this: usermod -p your-encrypted-password-from-shadow root This works for me in 8.2, 9.0, 9.1 Best regards Ing. Wolfgang Skabrond -- TWS Datensysteme Ges.m.b.H. Cobenzlgasse 32/3 A-1190 Wien Tel.: +43/1/32 9 32-0 Fax: +43/1/32 9 32-30 WWW: http://www.tws.at E-Mail: skabrond@tws.at --- Nicholas DeClario schrieb am 08.09.2004, 22:43 ---
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
Hi Nick! I'm setting the root password with a postinstall script. First, you have to get the encrypted password you want to set for "root" from a /etc/shadow file (the second field in this file). Then specify a postinstall-script doing this: usermod -p your-encrypted-password-from-shadow root This works for me in 8.2, 9.0, 9.1 Best regards Ing. Wolfgang Skabrond -- TWS Datensysteme Ges.m.b.H. Cobenzlgasse 32/3 A-1190 Wien Tel.: +43/1/32 9 32-0 Fax: +43/1/32 9 32-30 WWW: http://www.tws.at E-Mail: skabrond@tws.at --- Nicholas DeClario schrieb am 08.09.2004, 22:43 ---
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
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 ... Am I missing something obvious? Is there anyway this can be done? Any help would be appreciated.
in suse 9.0 and 9.1 autoyast editor: security and users -> edit and create users. click configure. set filter -> system users. select root and click edit. you can then enter a password for root.
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Carl Pecinovsky -
Ing. Wolfgang Skabrond -
Nicholas DeClario -
Rajiv Aaron Manglani -
Randy Dees