RE: Kickstart User Creation

[John <red computerdatasafe com au>]

On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Gareth Bromley wrote:

> On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Joshi, Vinay (MED, GEMS-IT) wrote:
> > I dont know the issue with encrypted passwds. As said before can be
> > picked up from shadow file.
> > or if you really want..  generate it .Create an executable ( compiled 4
> > line C code, using crypt(), and seed as same as supplied passwd
> > generates the system passwds)
> Or use the following perl code to generate it from the unencrypted
> versions at Kickstart time.
> perl -e 'print crypt("myHighlySecureClearTextPassword", "Xa") . "\n";'p
> 
> Note: You'd need to wrapper this with the necessary usermod etc commands.
> 
> Of course one has to ask, why leave cleartext passwords in a text file to
> build systems?

It's an easy way to supply them, and if anyone can get them out of _my_
systems, I have more serious concerns.


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