You change the root pw on one machine, grab the /etc/shadow entry, and sed replace the root line in the shadow file into a remote command to whatever systems you need to change.
> On Aug 25, 2015, at 4:13 PM, Franky Van Liedekerke <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Aug 2015 19:45:06 +0000 > "Armstrong, Kenneth Lawrence (SYSADMIN)" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Is there a way to deploy a root password change to a group of servers >> in Satellite 5.6? I imagine something like this might be possible in >> Satellite 6.x, but we don’t have that deployed yet. > > Since spacewalk only has the root-pwd there for kickstart I don't think > that is possible. I don't know if this helps, but: loop through your > servers, do sudo and: > > echo "root:newpass"|chpasswd > > I know, it is not the config-method you're looking for (puppet, > ansible), but sometimes the simplest things are sufficient too ... > > Franky > > _______________________________________________ > Spacewalk-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
