Passwords in FAI (Was: Re: Copy directories with fcopy)

[Markus Törnqvist]

On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 07:05:26PM +0100, Henning Glawe wrote:
>1) copying passwd is not a good idea: it contains many dynamic entries
>   generated by packages (and thus changes quite often)

Well, in this case it's pretty much a good idea :)
I'd like to company sysadmin team to be able to log in, if they
change their passwords, it's not an installation problem.

Customer accounts are added manually afterwards in either case.

>2) unless you run fcopy recursively somewhere you need to call it for each
>   file.

I made a script like USERS/S666 or something to write the files but
there's a new problem.

It doesn't authenticate, no matter what.
I compared the PAM configuration and all's the same there as on the
install server, as well as the file contents and permissions.

Must I enable crypts manually somewhere? In which format is the
default root password after fai? 16-bit MD5?

So close yet so far ;)

Thanks!

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mjt