Puppet users - Aug 2010 - Re: [Puppet-dev] Setting a user's password with puppet

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> Does anybody know how I can set a user''s password with puppet
without
> knowing what the hash will be? There is code I''ve tried from here:
> 
>
http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/fa919b524c4a9323
> 
> But it does not seem to work, I think because the way the hash is set
> on my target machine (ubuntu 9.04) is different to the way the hash is
> generated on the puppet master. Is there another (hopefully simpler!)
> way to do this?
you could always write a function that generates you the correct hash
depending on the operatingsystem fact. But this would mean that you will
need to have the password in (semi-)plaintext in your manifests.

Any other option is similar to that one, as in the nature of the
user-provider and probably this is related to the way how the different
usermod work, the password has to be encrypted in the hash of the
targeted system.

If the exec doesn''t work for you, you might also want to examine why it
doesn''t work (what errors do you get?) and change it so that it work on
your different distros.

cheers pete

PS: I''m taking that thread to puppet-users as much more people might
have an answer there to that kind of questions.
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