so If I changed it to
user {'sysop':
#uid => 500,
#groups => 'admin',
comment => 'Sysop',
ensure => present,
home => '/home/sysop',
shell => '/bin/bash',
managehome => true,
password => "Hash"
}
Hash being the hash from /etc/shadow that would be all I needed?
On Jun 8, 3:12 pm, Nathan Clemons <nat...@livemocha.com> wrote:
> 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.
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> 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.
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