RE: [gentoo-catalyst] Passwords

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 09:38 -0500, Kessler, Paul wrote:
> Some of the network analysis tools that I need require root to operate,
> especially if you are dealing with raw sockets.

Is "sudo su -" not good enough?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Gianelloni [mailto:wolf31o2@g.o]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 9:20 AM
> To: gentoo-catalyst@l.g.o
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Passwords
>
> On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 08:59 -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> > Kessler, Paul wrote:
> > > Is there a simple way to set the root password from within the
> fsscript
> > > that doesn't require the use of expect? A friend of mine that builds
>
> > > clusters for IBM gave me the following, he uses it in his kickstarts
> but
> > > this doesn't work for me.
> > >
> > > echo "password" | /usr/bin/passwd --stdin administrator
> > >
> > > passwd takes the --s from stdin to mean the shell flag, and well
> that's
> > > sort of unfriendly if you know what I mean. Any suggestions?
> >
> > `man chpasswd`
>
> Even better... ;]
>
> I figure you're making a system with a preset root password, whereas
> we're trying to make a CD with scrambled passwords, for security
> reasons.

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Chris Gianelloni
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