Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Assign the user password

[Chris Gianelloni]

On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 20:39 +0200, Luca Casagrande wrote:
> Alle 18:50, martedì 22 agosto 2006, Chris Gianelloni ha scritto:
> > On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 17:01 +0200, Luca Casagrande wrote:
> > > Now that much of the problem are solved, I am wondering if there's a way
> > > for setting the password of the user described in livecd-stage2.spec. I
> > > used to chroot in it and use passwd, but i wonder if there's a way to do
> > > it with catalyst.
> >
> > There's no method on catalyst.  The simple answer is to do it in your
> > fsscript, along with any other adjustments you need to make.
>
> Thx for your answer Chris...I have read a lot doc about bash, but i don't
> understand how set the password of the user.
> Can you post me an example?

I just use sed to insert the password hash manually.  I don't know of a
decent commandline tool for changing the password non-interactively.

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Chris Gianelloni
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