Mathieu Sauve-Frankel wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 01:59:53PM -0400, Michael DeHaan wrote:
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> If this is the case, then why not build a command into cobbler itself that 
> allows you to modify the password in all or a subset of your kickstarts 
> easily ?  
>
>   

I like this.

cobbler passwd --template=path

or:

cobbler passwd --all

or

cobbler passwd --stock-templates-only


Saves the trouble of launching system-config-kickstart just to generate 
a hash and see what it would look like.


>> 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.
>>     
>
>   

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