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echo p4ssw0rd | passwd --stdin username

… however, that unfortunately doesn’t work on at least Ubuntu (and possibly many other distros as well).

Now — finally — and thanks to this comment, I have an answer; and it looks something like this:

echo username:password | chpasswd

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I really wanted to use the Smokeping init script that comes with Ubuntu 10.04.* LTS  on a CentOS 6.2 box. One look at it, however, and you will very quickly realise that out-the-box that isn’t something which is likely to work, possibly for other reasons, but definitely because you don’t have “start-stop-daemon” on a CentOS box; not yet at least

This helpful post suggested that if you pull the dpkg source from one of the Debian mirrors then you could build it, albeit quite nastily, and end up with a successful build of start-stop-daemon. However, it doesn’t have to build so nastily. Newer versions of dpkg build cleanly, as I discovered and have detailed below. As root or using sudo, do the following:

cd /usr/local/src
wget -c "http://za.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/d/dpkg/dpkg_1.15.8.4ubuntu3.tar.bz2"
tar jfxvh dpkg_1.15.8.4ubuntu3.tar.bz2
rm dpkg_1.15.8.4ubuntu3.tar.bz2
cd dpkg-1.15.8.4ubuntu2/
./configure --without-install-info --without-update-alternatives --without-dselect
make && make install

Now if you type “which start-stop-daemon” you should discover that it’s built and installed into /usr/local/sbin, and works perfectly just like it’s supposed to. And with that hurdle out the way, I could now finish getting that Ubuntu init script working on CentOS. Happy time

Sorry, this is a bit lazy of me, but at the moment I can only con­firm that this works on Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS. It might, how­ever, work on other ver­sions too, and maybe also with Debian of course.

If when you run an apt-get update you are being told some­thing like this right at the end:

W: GPG error: http://196.x.y.z lucid Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 2940ABA983EF826A

… then install “add-apt-key” on the box, and run it, adding the miss­ing key itself to the end of the com­mand, as shown below.

root@xyz-box-bry-01:~# apt-get install add-apt-key
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  add-apt-key
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 5 not upgraded.
Need to get 5,314B of archives.
After this operation, 81.9kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://196.x.y.z/ubuntu/ lucid/universe add-apt-key 1.0-0.5 [5,314B]
Fetched 5,314B in 0s (270kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package add-apt-key.
(Reading database ... 88896 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking add-apt-key (from .../add-apt-key_1.0-0.5_all.deb) ...
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Setting up add-apt-key (1.0-0.5) ...
root@xyz-box-bry-01:~# add-apt-key 2940ABA983EF826A
gpg: directory `/root/.gnupg' created
gpg: new configuration file `/root/.gnupg/gpg.conf' created
gpg: WARNING: options in `/root/.gnupg/gpg.conf' are not yet active during this run
gpg: keyring `/root/.gnupg/secring.gpg' created
gpg: keyring `/root/.gnupg/pubring.gpg' created
gpg: requesting key 83EF826A from hkp server subkeys.pgp.net
gpg: /root/.gnupg/trustdb.gpg: trustdb created
gpg: key 83EF826A: public key "Opscode Packages " imported
gpg: Total number processed: 1
gpg:               imported: 1
OK
root@xyz-box-bry-01:~#

I’ve found that some­times the key server doesn’t have the key and so it’s not imported, but re-running the com­mand gen­er­ally fixes that as the next key server cho­sen usu­ally does end up hav­ing the key. Once you’ve suc­cess­fully imported the key, run “apt-get update” again and your prob­lem should no longer exist.

There was some­thing else I wanted to say but I’ve totally for­got­ten what it was.

Enjoy

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