improved password encryption documenation

2023-03-09 14:46:34 +01:00
parent 03e825b714
commit 26d803fba1
2 changed files with 26 additions and 45 deletions
@@ -54,6 +54,8 @@ the values are hashes containing the usual user properties, ie:
 ``shell``     shell (required)
 ============  ==========================

+Ideally encrypt the password has as in chapter "Example: Encrypting password" :ref:`../hiera`
+

 ``users``
 ~~~~~~~~~
@@ -91,6 +93,7 @@ The following defines three users and one group, but only creates one each::
      'home': '/home/archadm'
      'shell': '/bin/bash'
      'comment': ''
+      'password': 'ENC[PKCS7,MIIB2gYxxxxxx...xxxxxxx]'

  local_accounts::groups:
    - 'archadm'