2009/5/6 Chad Huneycutt <[email protected]>

>
> I have a couple of concerns about this (at least in my environment).
> First, the root password would be clearly visible (not even crypted!)
> In the process listing during execution of the usermod. Second,
> similarly, the root password is stored in plaintext on the
> puppetmaster. Actually, would that variable be stored in each hosts
> yaml cache?
>
> Puppet has a user type that I think would be much better. I haven't
> done this yet, but assuming you have installed ruby-shadow package,
> you just need to specify the crypted string.
>
>
It's easy enough to just use sed in a exec to updatet the hash in shadow. I
agree that having a clear text root passord floating around is a bad idea.
That would lead it to be in the manifests, in subversion, in syslog and
probably in the yaml cache like Chad said.


Regards

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