[987] in athena10
Re: Athena 10 root password (should be) in AFS
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder)
Mon Jan 26 14:32:32 2009
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Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 14:31:33 -0500
From: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
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To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@mit.edu>
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Jonathon Weiss wrote:
>> The debathena-cluster-login-config package attempts to set the root
>> password by getting it from
>> /afs/athena.mit.edu/system/config/passwd/athena10/rootpw, which doesn't
>> currently exist. That file should only contain the crypted root
>> password, not a full passwd line.
>>
>> Could someone from ops put that in place?
>>
>> - Evan
>>
>
> Should this be a crypt string, or an md5 string? Also, is athena10
> really the right dir name? Everything else there is either an @sys
> value, or 'rhlinux'.
>
> Jonathon
>
It looks like it should be "whatever you can drop into /etc/shadow",
which can be an md5 string (although the manpage doesn't document that).
An @sys string probably isn't the right idea, since a Debathena machine
can be any combination of {i386,amd64}_deb{3,4,5}0, and scheduled to
keep increasing. If you'd like to make it something other than athena10,
we can adjust the package accordingly.
- Evan
