Hi,
I suppose it will be useful if I share a workaround I just found for a
problem I encountered.
I needed a "user" puppet resource to add a user and set its password, on
CentOS 6.4.
The manifest was applied with no errors, but the password was not set
correctly.
I tried:
password => sha1("password")
and some hash was set for the user password, but it was not the right one,
I could not log in.
I then tried directly setting the hash I got from "openssl passwd -1
password":
password => "$1$RCxCmL.x$MRHrLKqYpha19ERGC/5FQ/"
but only part of the hash ended up in /etc/shadow, e.g. in this case
".x/5FQ/".
By searching on Google I found reports of very similar problems, but the
output and fixes were different, mostly regarding a required ruby library
(ruby-libshadow) which AFAICT I already had installed.
I eventually spotted the problem was with "$" signs, so I tried escaping
them:
password => "\$1\$RCxCmL.x\$MRHrLKqYpha19ERGC/5FQ/"
and it finally works!
Thinking about it, it appears logical: strings enclosed in double quotes
allow for variable interpolation, so anything following a $ up to another
special char like a dot or a slash was expected to be a variable, but its
value was empty.
HTH someone else when googling.
Marco
PS: what's the problem with sha1()? I don't care about the password being
in clear text in the manifest, BTW.
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