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{{Release Engineering How To|Reset the cltbld Password with Puppet}} | {{Release Engineering How To|Reset the cltbld Password with Puppet}} | ||
User passwords are stored in a hashed format alongside other user information. We do not put the hashes in a public location for hopefully obvious reasons - please make sure you don't do this by accident. | |||
Let's say you want to update cltbld's password. First, you need to generate the new hash. You can do that by running the following: | Let's say you want to update cltbld's password. First, you need to generate the new hash. You can do that by running the following: | ||
makepasswd --clearfrom=- --crypt-md5 | makepasswd --clearfrom=- --crypt-md5 | ||
# now type the password and hit ^D a couple times | # now type the password and hit ^D a couple times | ||
Now, copy and paste that password into /etc/puppet/manifests/ | Now, copy and paste that password into /etc/puppet/manifests/secrets.pp as the 'password' for the cltbld user. Do this on all active puppet masters. '''do not check this change in!''' | ||
Both the root and cltbld passwords can be updated this way. | |||