What does the default_password_crypted field do?

Hi Folks: I recently decided to change the cobbler password and found that the comment from "cobbler check" didn't really help. The comment said: 2 : The default password used by the sample templates for newly installed machines (default_password_crypted in /etc/cobbler/settings) is still set to 'cobbler' and should be changed, try: "openssl passwd -1 -salt 'random-phrase-here' 'your-password-here'" to generate new one 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: % service cobblerd restart % cobbler sync Unfortunately this didn't fix anything and I still couldn't log into the web interface with the new password. Note that I also tried using a salt but that didn't help either. I chose no salt for my initial test because the default entry did not use a salt. I finally got it to work using htdigest as follows: % htdigest /etc/cobbler/users.digest "Cobbler" cobbler New password: testit Re-type new password: testit % htdigest /etc/cobbler/users.digest "Cobbler" jlinoff Adding user jlinoff in realm Cobbler New password: testit1 Re-type new password: testit1 What does the default_password_crypted field do? Best regards, Joe