Re: pam thoughts

Thorsten Kukuk <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.lsb.test-suite
Organization SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Jun 09, Wichmann, Mats D wrote:

> 
> We've had some problems with passwords being
> set right on the vsxN accounts.  I'm wondering
> if it makes sense for the setup to actually
> set the passwords on the vsx1, vsx2 accounts
> with the passwd command. It knows the passwords,
> since we tell it them as part of the interview,
> and it might eliminate some problems of correct
> setup and mistyped passwords and so on.
> 
> Any thoughts?

I think it is a very good idea to set the password. Or
we should tell the admin in the post install section, that
he has to set the password before he start the run script.

But not all passwd commands can read the password from stdin,
which is necessary in this case. And with usermod -p, we have
the problem that we don't know with which crypt() algorithm the
admin is working.
 
  Thorsten

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