On 2 Oct 2008, at 18:01, Geoff Newell wrote:
> I'm working on a turnkey Linux system where the post build config is
> handled with puppet.
> One of the unique constraints with a turnkey system is that
> passwords are essentially set at build time and then stay fixed for
> the life of the product.
> I was wondering if anyone had used puppet to manage user passwords?
> The 'user' type supports an encrypted hash, but ideally I need the
> facility of passing in a plaintext password, md5 hash it and then
> have puppet idempotently check it's been set.
You can do this via shelling out via generate() on the puppetmaster:
$salt = 'dqwdqaom'
$password = 'mycleartextpassword'
$md5_password = generate('/bin/sh', '-c', "/usr/bin/mkpasswd -H md5 -S
$salt '$passwd' | tr -d '\n'")
Ugly, but it works.
The pretty way of doing this would be to create a custom function.
We're intending on doing this, but it's not there yet.
Cheers,
Mike
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