What is the meaning of salt. I am confused. Where can I get more info on "salt" Regards, Keith -------- Linux: because I want to get there today. Without rebooting. -------- ---------- > 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). ----------