Setting ROOTPW not properly documented in fai-guide?

[Henning Sprang]

Hi,

When trying to figure out hot to change the default rootpassword of
installed clients by just changing the variable "ROOTPW" in a class
.var file,
I believe that the information in the fai-guide and comments in the
configs is not helpful to get a new password.

The only things I found that worked is

* copying a password value from a real /etc/shadow file
* using mkpasswd as written in
http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-fai@uni-koeln.de/msg00210.html

Both of these ways are not documented in the FAI-guide, and the hint
on crypt or md5 in the guide/comments would lead me to use the crypt
command (in the mcrypt package) or the md5sum command - both did not
work for me.

any experiences with this, or other ways how to do that?

Henning


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