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<p>Could chpasswd be used for that?<br>
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<div id="x_divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> openbmc <openbmc-bounces+kenneth.wilke=rackspace.com@lists.ozlabs.org> on behalf of vishwa <vishwa@linux.vnet.ibm.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 11, 2017 11:18:48 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> OpenBMC Maillist<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Design proposal to Non-Interactive password update for REST client</font>
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<div class="PlainText">This email is about openbmc/openbmc#1714 ( REST API to update root
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password )<br>
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Goal is to do Non-interactive password updates to enable a REST client <br>
to update the root password.<br>
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My proposal is to use `getspent(3)` and `putspent(3)` and here is the flow.<br>
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REST client will provide a method that takes std::string as parameter.<br>
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The Provider at the BMC will receive the password and does these:<br>
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- Executes `getspent(3)` for "root" and gets the entries.<br>
- Parses the `sp_pwdp` and extracts `encryption method` , `salt`.<br>
- Makes a call to `crypt(3)` with the extracted `salt` and `user <br>
input` and generates encrypted pass-code<br>
- Populates the structure and calls `putspent(3)` to update the password<br>
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Please let me know your opinion on this.<br>
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Thank you,<br>
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!! Vishwa !!<br>
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