RE: Kickstart User Creation

[Philip Rowlands <phr doc ic ac uk>]

On Sun, 4 May 2003, Jeff Lunde wrote:

>Would getting the encrypted password from the /etc/shadow be the same as
>copying the encryption text from a manually created Kickstart Configuration
>file (meaning a KS.cfg file from a machine I created manually, including
>adding the user & password manually during the install).

Yes, they would be similar (but not identical). shadow file entries
beginning with $1$ indicate md5-crypted passwords (which you want), and
the random salt will cause the actual stored value to change.

As I've recommended before, the best way I've seen to generate cryptpw's
is:

$ openssl passwd -1
Password: secret!
$1$ZhEKgpbS$KtmSr63TRqGQ1NcGXCaR01

Openssl only asks once, so you might want to verify the output:
(notice the salt is between the second and third $ signs)

$ openssl passwd -1 -salt ZhEKgpbS
Password: secret!
$1$ZhEKgpbS$KtmSr63TRqGQ1NcGXCaR01


Hope this helps,
Phil