Is there a means to generate a hash of a password to be used in an autoyast file? I’m trying to sort out how to create create an interface for building autoyast files for Xen machines and would like the option of entering a password which will be hashed and inserted into the file.
I guess a better question would be whether or not openSUSE uses a simple means to do this such as an sha1 or md5 hash.
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Have you tried tinkering with the Autoyast-creator thingy in Yast? It’s
in the Miscellaneous section, I believe, but it lets you create an
AutoYast file as you like it and I suspect it would include this.
Otherwise, it’s probably just the hash value from the ‘shadow’ file and
could therefore take a properly-formatted md5sum. Hopefully somebody
who has done this can confirm/refute shortly.
Good luck.
theillien wrote:
| Is there a means to generate a hash of a password to be used in an
| autoyast file? I’m trying to sort out how to create create an
| interface for building autoyast files for Xen machines and would like
| the option of entering a password which will be hashed and inserted
| into the file.
|
| I guess a better question would be whether or not openSUSE uses a
| simple means to do this such as an sha1 or md5 hash.
|
|
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Yeah, I got the autoyast.xml file and it has a hash of the password on the system I created it on. What I’d like to do is use this as a template and change it based on the values entered into a web UI. For the password I’d like to provide a field into which a masked password can be entered and when the form is processed, hash the password for insertion into the autoyast file.
-Mathew