Thanks all, for the input.
On Jun 5, 2013, at 1:12 PM, Marshel Helsper <[email protected]> wrote:
> Would this work?
>
> sudo("echo {password} | passwd --stdin
> {user}".format(password=password,user=username))
>
> As for being able to specify from the command line, just make sure the task
> you're using has those parameters. Something like what I used to test the
> above command.
>
> @task
> def change_password(user, password):
> sudo("echo {0} | passwd --stdin {1}".format(password, user))
>
> Hope that helps. The issue there, of course, is that the password isn't
> pre-hashed before going across the network.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marshel Helsper
> QA/Release Engineer
> NetProspex Inc.
> [email protected]
>
>
>
> On Jun 5, 2013, at 3:42 PM, Tim Burby <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi All,
>> I am new to fabric but I'm really appreciating the power. I'm a middling sys
>> admin with sudden responsibility for about 50 servers. the Environment is
>> currently handled machine by machine for authentication. How can I pass a
>> hashed password to either useradd or usermod?
>> I tried sudo("usermod -p 'wholebunchofhashstuff' jsmith") and sudo("usermod
>> -p \'wholebunchofhashstuff\' jsmith" but both have failed. and would there
>> be a way to pass the hash in from a command option? I've combed the web as
>> best as I can but pure sys admin examples are never as full as I'd like.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Tim
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