Passwords in FAI

[Steffen Grunewald]

Hi Markus,
 
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 05:18:49PM +0200, Markus TXrnqvist wrote:
> cating /etc/shadow mangled the passwords, I mean with cat >> <<-EOF,
> so I took the echo '' >> method instead.

Did you try the cat << "EOF" trick? 

> That works fine enough for me, so thanks for all the replies :)
> I think cat just didn't like all the bonus characters in the shadowed
> pass...

IMHO it's not a problem with cat but with the interpretation of $ and `
that makes the difference

> And now on to congratulate Herr Lange for this great tool, the only

I second that!

Steffen