On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, McCanta, Jay wrote: >We build ks.cfg files on the fly, generate a floppy and hand that off for >installation. How can I generate the encrypted password for the rootpw >option? Use the --iscrypted option to rootpw, and generate the password with this script: ----- CUT HERE ----- !/usr/bin/perl -w $passwd = $ARGV[0]; $salt = "\$1\$".$ARGV[1]."\$"; print(crypt($passwd, $salt)."\n"); ----- CUT HERE ---- e.g. $ md5crypt.pl Sekret! ABCDEFGH $1$ABCDEFGH$tAFdeA3F3BJcza9M7wDZV/ THIS IS A BADLY WRITTEN SCRIPT. It gets the job done, but you must be careful to generate the random salt properly, take care to prevent other users seeing the plaintext password in the output of ps, and take care to prevent the passwords you use ending up in shell history files. I might write a better version and post it later. I assume you are using "auth --enablemd5" in your kickstart file (you should be). Cheers, Phil
