What I do is set the password on one host, and then copy the hash out of /etc/shadow into the Puppet definition to be set on the other hosts.
By default the Puppet providers expect that the password field will be hashed as used on the system, not plaintext. -- Nathan Clemons http://www.livemocha.com The worlds largest online language learning community On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 12:08 PM, vella1tj <vella...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi everyone I would like to first of all say thanks to anyone willing > to help me. > > I was tasked with creating a Admin account using puppet to push to all > of our Macs that we have deployed around the Campus. > > user {'sysop': > #uid => 500, > #groups => 'admin', > comment => 'Sysop', > ensure => present, > home => '/home/sysop', > shell => '/bin/bash', > managehome => true, > password => 'Haven't figured out the best way to hash > a password and put it in here., > } > > That's what I have so far, I don't believe I understand how Hash works > completely. The way I understand it is it will have a hash in the > password field and it will compare it to other hashes to match what > the password would be. So what I was hoping to get help on (or > anything i've done wrong or you would recommend me doing different) is > how do i set a resource for the hash do i put it in my files directory > and then point it to there.... is there anything special I have to do > so puppet understands that it's hash. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Users" group. > To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
