On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 10:49 AM, Craig White <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Sep 8, 2011, at 9:55 AM, Nigel Kersten wrote: > > > > > > > On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 9:51 AM, M. Hand <[email protected]> wrote: > > Is there a way to have a Windows hashed password setup from the > > command line (ie we have a pw hash, how do we, on command line, update > > a users pw with that hash)? > > > > That's the problem we haven't solved yet. Suggestions much appreciated! > ---- > Not much of a help here but there is a perl module for this - I know > because webmin uses it. > > (ubuntu packaging) > # apt-cache search smbhash > libcrypt-smbhash-perl - generate LM/NT hash of a password for samba > > I did find this via Google > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/334519/ldap-through-ruby-or-rails > > that suggests that something like this should work... > OpenSSL::Digest::MD4.hexdigest(Iconv.iconv("UCS-2", "UTF-8", > pass).join).upcase > > It's more that we would like to be able to preserve the behavior we get on *nix systems, where you can simply pass the hash around in Puppet manifests, Puppet can verify that the current hash matches the provided one, and can update the hash itself, all without having to expose the clear text password itself at any time. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
