> Hi, > > after a upgrade to fai 2.8.4 the root password is not set on my clients. > > In DEFAULT/S20 (cfegine skript based on the simple example skript), the > line in /etc/passwd should be replaced, but it is not because when i > look into that file, there is no root password set > > next possible source of problems could be the passwd/shadow debconf > thingy Do you mean lines like these: passwd passwd/shadow boolean true passwd passwd/md5 boolean true
? Then /etc/shadow is enabled. > > do I have to do the replace in /etc/shadow or /etc/passwd ??? > Don't use cfengine for that, the following line is a better: echo "root:$rootpw" | $ROOTCMD chpasswd --encrypted [...] HTH, Michael
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