Dustin Black wrote:
> How about simply generating a random password at RPM installation time, and 
> noting strongly in the comments of the default kickstart files that it is so?
>   

The issue I have is that I don't think all of our users are clueful 
enough on how to replace the password hash.

Cobbler walks a line between being a very powerful tool for complex 
installations but something that's also trivially easy to use out of the 
box.

--Michael


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> Subject: Re: Reminder: Has anyone /not/ changed the default passwords in your 
>   kickstarts?
>
>   
>> A future idea for /usr/bin/cobbler setup is probably to ask the user
>> what they want the default password for the sample kickstarts to be and
>> then add that to the sample kickstarts.
>>     
>
> Ask for password does not match well with rpm install.
> What about just take the hash from /etc/shadow from an existing user?
> (either a cobbler user or simply root)
>
> JaviP
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