#!/bin/sh
	 #
	 #       @(#)set_root_pw 1.4 93/12/23 SMI
	 #
	 # This is an example bourne shell script to be run after installation.
	 # It sets the system's root password to the entry defined in PASSWD.
	 # The encrypted password is obtained from an existing root password entry
	 # in /etc/shadow from an installed machine.
 
	 echo "setting password for root"
 
	 # set the root password
 [Sets the variable PASSWD to an encrypted root password obtained from an existing entry in a system's /etc/shadow file.]  PASSWD=dKO5IBkSF42lw
	 #create a temporary input file
 [Creates a temporary input file of /a/etc/shadow.]  cp /a/etc/shadow /a/etc/shadow.orig
 
	 mv /a/etc/shadow /a/etc/shadow.orig
 	nawk -F: '{
 [Changes the root entry in the /etc/shadow file for the newly installed system using $PASSWD as the password field.]           if ( $1 == "root" )
           printf"%s:%s:%s:%s:%s:%s:%s:%s:%s\n",$1,passwd,$3,$4,$5,$6,$7,$8,$9
      else
		        printf"%s:%s:%s:%s:%s:%s:%s:%s:%s\n",$1,$2,$3,$4,$5,$6,$7,$8,$9
      }' passwd="$PASSWD" /a/etc/shadow.orig > /a/etc/shadow
 [Removes the temporary /a/etc/shadow file.]  #remove the temporary file
  rm -f /a/etc/shadow.orig
 [Changes the entry from 0 to a 1 in the state file, so that the user will not be prompted for the root password. The state file is accessed using the variable SI_SYS_STATE, whose value currently is /a/etc/.sysIDtool.state. (To avoid problems with your scripts if this value changes, always reference this file using $SI_SYS_STATE.) The sed command shown here contains a tab character after the 0 and after the 1.]  # set the flag so sysidroot won't prompt for the root password
  sed -e 's/0 # root/1 # root/' ${SI_SYS_STATE} > /tmp/state.$$
  mv /tmp/state.$$ ${SI_SYS_STATE}