[Spacewalk-list] Deploy a root password change

[Steve Meier]

Hello,

using sed on your /etc/shadow is a very harsh way to do it. On Red Hat
the passwd command supports the --stdin parameter which is much cleaner

echo supersecret | passwd --stdin root

Run this as a remote action and you are good.

Alternatively, you can create a dummy RPM where this is a %post action
and deploy this RPM. This should work as well and the version of that
dummy RPM will actually give you a hint on which of your rotated 
passwords
it is.

Kind regards,
   Steve

Am 2015-08-25 22:24, schrieb Justin Edmands:
> You change the root pw on one machine, grab the /etc/shadow entry, and
> sed replace the root line in the shadow file into a remote command to
> whatever systems you need to change.
> 
> 
>> On Aug 25, 2015, at 4:13 PM, Franky Van Liedekerke 
>> <liedekef at telenet.be> wrote:
>> 
>> On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 19:45:06 +0000
>> "Armstrong, Kenneth Lawrence (SYSADMIN)" <klarmstrong2 at liberty.edu>
>> 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.
>> 
>> Since spacewalk only has the root-pwd there for kickstart I don't 
>> think
>> that is possible. I don't know if this helps, but: loop through your
>> servers, do sudo and:
>> 
>> echo "root:newpass"|chpasswd
>> 
>> I know, it is not the config-method you're looking for (puppet,
>> ansible), but sometimes the simplest things are sufficient too ...
>> 
>> Franky
>> 
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