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Topic: setting root passwd for headless system

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roberts

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Posted: July 06 2007,05:12

Sorry, I often cannot keep up with all the posts.

If you wish to use bash to script change a password, you can use /usr/sbin/chpasswd.

Take a look at the example that I did in /etc/init.d/dsl-config.for the boot option "secure":

It is as simple as...

echo "root:$PASSWD|chpasswd"

bib_ak

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Posted: July 08 2007,23:35

Perfect

Though, I had a little more success with

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echo "root:$PASSWD"|chpasswd

,just like in the example you pointed to ;)

Exactly how insecure is it to store your root password as plain text in a bash script? I know, bad, I know... But how on earth can anyone get into my machine to read the script in the first place?

Anyways, it works

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