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On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 08:31 -0500, Kessler, Paul wrote: |
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> Is there a simple way to set the root password from within the |
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> fsscript that doesn’t require the use of expect? A friend of mine that |
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> builds clusters for IBM gave me the following, he uses it in his |
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> kickstarts but this doesn’t work for me. |
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> echo “password” | /usr/bin/passwd --stdin administrator |
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> passwd takes the --s from stdin to mean the shell flag, and well |
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> that’s sort of unfriendly if you know what I mean. Any suggestions? |
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Use sed... |
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Chris Gianelloni |
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Release Engineering - Strategic Lead |
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Games - Developer |
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