On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 03:57:29PM -0600, John Dominik Baranski wrote: > When kickstarting, I noticed that if a password is specified, it is > placed into /etc/passwd. However, if auth --useshadow is also used, the > system uses /etc/shadow but the root password was never moved into the > shadow file; this leaves the system with no root password! I have tried > to change the order of the commands in the kickstart file, but with no > luck. Has anyone had any experience with this? > Thanks for any help. > > -John Baranski Hmm... the following worked for me the last time I tried it (RH6.2, I think): rootpw ROOTPASS auth --useshadow --enablemd5 Ajay
