How to Edit /etc/shadow file to add Password entry

[Garrett, Matt M SITI-ITDIEEE]

Folks

I have been trying to use cfengine 2.0.6 to edit the Solaris /etc/shadow file 
for root password

I have the following in my cfagent.conf

editfiles:

        solaris::
        { /etc/shadow.mg
               ReplaceAll "^root:.*" With "root:NEWROOTSHADOW:6445:::::"
        }


This is the error message that I am getting from cfrun

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cfengine:HOSTNAME: WARNING: Non-convergent edit operation ReplaceAll 
[root:NEWROOTSHADOW:6445:::::] With [^root:.*]
cfengine:HOSTNAME: Line begins [root:OLDROOTSHADOW:6445::::::]
cfengine:HOSTNAME: Replacement matches search string and will thus replace 
every time - edit was not done
cfengine:HOSTNAME: Error editing file /etc/shadow.mg
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Any suggestions on what I am doing wrong.

Thanks

Matt

Matthew Garrett
Unix System Support
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