[Spacewalk-list] Deploy a root password change

[Will Beldman]

I asked a similar question a few months ago:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/2015-April/msg00073.html

I think maintaining a custom_info attribute on your centrally managed 
/etc/shadow file is the closest and cleanest solution you will get but when 
you think about it, there is no good solution that can be considered a secure 
solution.

Perhaps it's best to keep root password maintenance down at the local machine 
to reduce exposure.

WB

On August 25, 2015 07:45:06 PM Armstrong, Kenneth Lawrence wrote:
> Is there a way to deploy a root password change to a group of servers in
> Satellite 5.6?  I imagine something like this might be possible in
> Satellite 6.x, but we don’t have that deployed yet.
 
> Thanks.
> 
> Kenny Armstrong
> System Administrator
> IS Operations
> 
> 
> 

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