>>>>> "rday" == rpjday <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: rday> [snip] rday> p.s. i noticed you were running useradd to add a user rday> account. you've probably noticed that you can't log in to rday> that account once the machine comes back up until you adjust rday> the password. rday> consider putting the command rday> passwd -d <username> rday> as part of %post, as long as you remember to eventually give rday> yourself a password. ...and if you happen to dislike blank passwords (as I do), you can: echo "user:clear-text-password" | chpasswd Even a predictable passwords is better than none IMO. Regards, -- Raju -- Raju Mathur raju@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://kandalaya.org/ It is the mind that moves