Re: [Fab-user] help passing a hashed password

[Marshel Helsper]

Would this work?

sudo("echo {password} | passwd --stdin 
{user}".format(password=password,user=username))

As for being able to specify from the command line, just make sure the task 
you're using has those parameters. Something like what I used to test the above 
command.

@task
def change_password(user, password):
    sudo("echo {0} | passwd --stdin {1}".format(password, user))

Hope that helps. The issue there, of course, is that the password isn't 
pre-hashed before going across the network.

Thanks,

Marshel Helsper
QA/Release Engineer
NetProspex Inc.
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On Jun 5, 2013, at 3:42 PM, Tim Burby <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi All, 
> I am new to fabric but I'm really appreciating the power. I'm a middling sys 
> admin with sudden responsibility for about 50 servers. the Environment is 
> currently handled machine by machine for authentication. How can I pass a 
> hashed password to either useradd or usermod?
> I tried sudo("usermod -p 'wholebunchofhashstuff' jsmith") and sudo("usermod 
> -p \'wholebunchofhashstuff\' jsmith" but both have failed. and would there  
> be a way to pass the hash in from a command option? I've combed the web as 
> best as I can but pure sys admin examples are never as full as I'd like. 
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Tim
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