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

[Tim Burby]

Thanks all, for the input.
On Jun 5, 2013, at 1:12 PM, Marshel Helsper <address@hidden> wrote:

> 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.
> address@hidden
> 
> 
> 
> 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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