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The Right Way(tm) to change password hashes on FreeBSD with Puppet

April 5, 2011 by · 3 Comments 

Describing what I really wanted to happen a coworker of mine, Andrew Hust, was able to help me write up the ruby to get it done. So without further delay:

http://freebsd.so14k.com/puppet/pw_managespasswords.diff

I will be sending this to the FreeBSD puppet port maintainer and submitting it as a patch to the port soon. I wanted to get it out there so we could get some feedback.

Update: See the new patch I posted in the comments.

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3 Responses to “The Right Way(tm) to change password hashes on FreeBSD with Puppet”
  1. Peter Pentchev says:
    2011/04/06 at 05:48

    Just a minor nit: wouldn’t getting passwords be a bit more generic (not to mention portable, which is somewhat irrelevant in this situation) using getent(1)? Something like “getent passwd #{@resource[:name]}” ?

  2. brd says:
    2011/04/06 at 08:22

    That is a good idea. We created a new patch with your suggestions.. See:

    http://freebsd.so14k.com/puppet/pw_managespasswords2.diff

  3. brd says:
    2011/04/11 at 19:21

    The patch was committed as part of this update to 2.6.7:

    http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-ports/2011-April/215351.html

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