On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 21:58 -0600, Daniel Wittenberg wrote:
Could you just push a script to /etc/cron.daily so it'll run auto, and have
it replace the md5 crypted pass in /etc/shadow? Then you don't have to pass
anything in the clear ?
Technically, you'd want to use an 'at' job rather
2010/2/4 Michiel van Es michi...@info.nl:
Hi,
Is it possible to change the root password on all machines in a group?
We want to change the root password for al lot of systems, we thought
perhaps is spacewalk of some use (since you can install packages, reboot the
machines)
Is such an
I think he means /etc/shadow. There are several approaches, one would be to
script the 'passwd' command, using expect or something like it. The
downside is that you'll need to have the password in plain text in the
script. You could then use Spacewalk to run the script remotely. This is
2010/2/4 Jeffrey Watts jeffrey.w.wa...@gmail.com:
I think he means /etc/shadow.
Sorry, my mistake, really is a /etc/shadow
can send to execute in all machines ( how root ):
echo fedora | passwd -d root /dev/null
and shall have the root password fedora
There are several approaches, one
Shouldn't this be
echo 'new_password' | passwd --stdin root
You could do this simply with a remote command via the SSM. Just
remember that this will be in the spacewalk events for those servers
so if you have people with access to spacewalk that shouldn't know the
password, they'll be able to
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 10:14 +0800, Colin Coe wrote:
Shouldn't this be
echo 'new_password' | passwd --stdin root
You could do this simply with a remote command via the SSM. Just
remember that this will be in the spacewalk events for those servers
so if you have people with access to
Could you just push a script to /etc/cron.daily so it'll run auto, and have it
replace the md5 crypted pass in /etc/shadow? Then you don't have to pass
anything in the clear ?
Dan
On Feb 3, 2010, at 9:52 PM, Ian Forde wrote:
On Thu, 2010-02-04 at 10:14 +0800, Colin Coe wrote:
Shouldn't
I would hope that the person running the Spacewalk/Satellite server was
competent enough to test out changes to shadow before pushing them...
If the person running your management server is careless you've got bigger
problems.
Jeffrey.
On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 10:08 PM, Colin Coe
