The following 3-line solution (for generating the MD5 password) seems to work fairly
well:
makemd5passwd:
#!/usr/bin/perl
$pass="fai";
$saltstring=`makepasswd --chars=8`;
printf("%s\n", crypt("$pass","\$1\$$saltstring"));
It doesn't really need to use makepasswd program (debian makepasswd package) but it is
a
pretty cute and useful program as it uses /dev/urandom for generating the salt
(non-time based).
Otherwise, would need PERL to generate the random salt...Needless to say it also
requires PERL
installed ;-)
Then use makemd5passwd with 'chpass' like so:
echo "root:`makemd5passwd`" | chpasswd -e
This will tell chpasswd program to change the password for the root user to the
encrypted
password generated by makemd5passwd.
Alternatively, just use makemd5passwd to generate the string for rootpw= variable in
DEFAULT.var (maybe fai-setup can do it?) and/or feed it to cfengine to modify
/etc/shadow in
hooks.
I still have yet to find out what packages or configuration settings will be needed
for md5 to be
enabled.
Senaque
---
E-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IRC: #FAI @ irc.freenode.net
WWW: http://www.sf.net/users/senaque/
