I've always done this with "usermod -p", using the crypted password string. But that's probably not actually any more secure than echoing to "passwd --stdin".
On 2015-08-25 16:50, Steve Meier wrote: > Hello, > > using sed on your /etc/shadow is a very harsh way to do it. On Red Hat > the passwd command supports the --stdin parameter which is much cleaner > > echo supersecret | passwd --stdin root > > Run this as a remote action and you are good. > > Alternatively, you can create a dummy RPM where this is a %post action > and deploy this RPM. This should work as well and the version of that > dummy RPM will actually give you a hint on which of your rotated > passwords > it is. > > Kind regards, > Steve > > Am 2015-08-25 22:24, schrieb Justin Edmands: > 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 Spacewalk-list@redhat.! com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list [1] _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list [1] _______________________________________________ Spacewalk-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list [1] Links: ------ [1] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/spacewalk-list
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