Grzegorz Marszałek schrieb: > Hello! > > I'm trying to generate password to wpkg share on my server. Idea is > like this: > * I'm using puppet, but it could be any other tool for configuration > management > * puppet is generating all wpkg config files based on database content > * ok, so after first run I've got all .xml files, and all packages > files (.msi etc.) nicely downloaded to my server (linux with samba) > * and now I'd like to generate password for wpkg user to access share > with software... > > OK, the problem is, that wpkg client scrambles it's password in > settings.xml file. I'd like to have random passowrd for each server I > manage. There is no problem to generate settings.xml file (and thus > ease installation on wpkg client on workstation), but do you know what > algorithm is used to scrable password? I'd like to recreate it my > script. Currently, there is no tool for creating the password (other than wpkginst.exe). But it would be a good idea to create one (command line), both for Windows and UNIX. If you download WPKG Client sources, look into WPKG/Sources/Components/XmlSettings.cpp, if you're familiar with programming, it should give you some clues. -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org |