[Libguestfs] opensuse 15.2 and yescrypt

[Frédéric Pierret]

Le 2/16/22 à 17:51, Frédéric Pierret a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I've been investigating a recent issue I had between libguestfs 1.44 and 1.47 about setting root password for an openSUSE 15.2 guest VM.
>
> On libguestfs 1.44, default hash method for setting root password is SHA512 where as with recent commit for 1.47 it uses YESCRYPT (https://github.com/rwmjones/guestfs-tools/commit/ba6d4cb7d394c1b5d14ef8103e3f64a8bcb35d77).
>
> Looking at https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE%3AFactory/libxcrypt it looks like I would need to install libxcrypt into the guest but I don't find any official package for Leap.
>
> What workaround would you suggest instead? For now, the only workaround I see if to manually generate the password and sed the shadow file.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Best regards,
> Frédéric Pierret
>
> PS: You can reach me also with my Qubes OS email: frederic.pierret at qubes-os.org.


Adding the list, I've made a mistake in the CC field sorry.

Best,

Frédéric