On 27 January 2011 02:28, Joe Linoff <jlinoff@tabula.com> wrote:

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

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