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 :'''NOTE:''' no released version of Puppet supported setting passwords on Mountain Lion when we deployed it.  PuppetAgain includes a ''darwinuser'' type and a ''CustomDirectoryService'' provider for that type, both based on the work of Gary Larizza in [http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/12833 #12833].  What is eventually available in Puppet proper should closely resemble this implementation.
-Authentication on Mountain Lion takes place based on three pieces of information: iterations, salt, and password (called 'entropy' by OS X).  You can get this information for an existing user with [http://hg.mozilla.org/build/puppet/raw-file/default/setup/mtnlion-user-info.rb setup/mtnlion-user-info.rb]:
+Authentication on Mountain Lion takes place based on three pieces of information: iterations, salt, and password (called 'entropy' by OS X). You can get this information for an existing user with [http://hg.mozilla.org/build/puppet/raw-file/default/setup/mtnlion-user-info.rb setup/mtnlion-user-info.rb]:
-   sudo ruby mtnlion-user-info.rb %username%
+   sudo ruby mtnlion-user-info.rb %user%
 and then add it to the [[ReleaseEngineering/PuppetAgain/Secrets|secrets]] for your installation.
+If you want to retrieve the information for the ''root'' account, you may have to [http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1528 enable the root user] first.
 === 10.9 (Mavericks) ===