Hi Bob:

Thank you for clearing up my confusion about the difference between the
password for the web interface and the clients.

Also, thank you for the tip about grub-md5-crypt. I wasn't aware that I
could use that program as well.

Best regards,

Joe

From: Robert Cross [mailto:r_l_cross@dechro.co.uk]
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 5:59 AM
To: Joe Linoff; cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org
Subject: Re: What does the default_password_crypted field do?

Joe Linoff wrote:

So I ran:

% openssl passwd -1 'testit'
<value>

and cut-n-pasted the <value> to the "default_password_crypted:" field in
/etc/cobbler/settings and updated everything:
Doing better than I did then - I could never get this to work with my
CentOS 5.5 cobbler server - anytime I tried it cobbler came back
complaining that the resulting kickstart was corrupt/invalid. In the end
I generate the password with grub-md5-crypt and that seemed to work fine
(well, I've done about a dozen test installs since with no problems. :D

What does the default_password_crypted field do?

As the comments in the settings file says, this field contains the
encrypted password that'll be assigned to root for your newly
provisioned systems. And the comments also warn you that if don't change
this then you'll get a warning from the 'check' command - which I
thought was a nice touch.

HTH, Bob Cross.
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