Hi,
If your password hash has any $ in it the "..." will puppet make try to expand
it.
You need password => '$1$effggfdg....' (single quotes).
cheers,
Den
On 09/06/2011, at 5:18, vella1tj <vella...@gmail.com> wrote:
> so If I changed it to
> user {'sysop':
> #uid => 500,
> #groups => 'admin',
> comment => 'Sysop',
> ensure => present,
> home => '/home/sysop',
> shell => '/bin/bash',
> managehome => true,
> password => "Hash"
> }
>
> Hash being the hash from /etc/shadow that would be all I needed?
>
>
>
> On Jun 8, 3:12 pm, Nathan Clemons <nat...@livemocha.com> wrote:
>> What I do is set the password on one host, and then copy the hash out of
>> /etc/shadow into the Puppet definition to be set on the other hosts.
>>
>> By default the Puppet providers expect that the password field will be
>> hashed as used on the system, not plaintext.
>>
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>> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 12:08 PM, vella1tj <vella...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi everyone I would like to first of all say thanks to anyone willing
>>> to help me.
>>
>>> I was tasked with creating a Admin account using puppet to push to all
>>> of our Macs that we have deployed around the Campus.
>>
>>> user {'sysop':
>>> #uid => 500,
>>> #groups => 'admin',
>>> comment => 'Sysop',
>>> ensure => present,
>>> home => '/home/sysop',
>>> shell => '/bin/bash',
>>> managehome => true,
>>> password => 'Haven't figured out the best way to hash
>>> a password and put it in here.,
>>> }
>>
>>> That's what I have so far, I don't believe I understand how Hash works
>>> completely. The way I understand it is it will have a hash in the
>>> password field and it will compare it to other hashes to match what
>>> the password would be. So what I was hoping to get help on (or
>>> anything i've done wrong or you would recommend me doing different) is
>>> how do i set a resource for the hash do i put it in my files directory
>>> and then point it to there.... is there anything special I have to do
>>> so puppet understands that it's hash.
>>
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