[Users] create CT with password

[albinootje]

Dietmar Maurer wrote:

> Is there are real world example where my approach does not work?
> 
> I check for /etc/shadow, and store as md5 - AFAIK the user is able to
> login with that password on all distribution using pam_unix. If not, we can still
> try to read and parse the pam configuration.
> 
> It will not work for nis, but that is a rare case. But nis requires a network anyways, 
> so the current code also fails.
> 
> So how can I create a VM with a password? For example:
> 
> # vzctl create
> # vzctl start
> # vzctl set --password
> 
> can also fail because the network is not running when we execute the passwd 
> command (vzctl start does not wait until the network is fully functional, and passwd requires
> the network when it uses nis).

For NIS you would add users and change passwords on the NIS-master,
or are you setting up the VE as a pre-configured NIS-slave perhaps ?