Hi Dylan: Thank you. That clears up my confusion. Best regards, Joe From: cobbler-bounces(a)lists.fedorahosted.org [mailto:cobbler-bounces@lists.fedorahosted.org] On Behalf Of Dylan Swift Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 2:53 AM To: cobbler mailing list Subject: Re: What does the default_password_crypted field do? Hi Joe, On 27 January 2011 02:28, Joe Linoff <jlinoff(a)tabula.com&gt; 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 _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list cobbler(a)lists.fedorahosted.org https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler the default_password_crypted field is used as the root password on any newly provisioned machines where the root password is defined in the kickstart file using this example from the file /var/lib/cobbler/kickstarts/basic.ks: #Root password rootpw --iscrypted $default_password_crypted The value you set using htdigest is the password for the web interface for the users cobbler & jlinoff HTH Dylan