James: I hadn't seen this option to kickstart. Could you point me to some documentation, I have pretty much read all of the documentation on kickstart that I could find but must have missed this. What version of RH are you using? tia, Nick -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of James S. Martin Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 8:30 AM To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: automate RHN setup I'm trying to use the rhnreg_ks program to automatically configure my machine during kickstart for the Red Hat Network. I am successful if I do: rhnreg_ks --username=myname --password=mypasswd --email=james.martin@xxxxxxxxx however, if I use the --cryptedpassword option I get: Traceback (innermost last): File "/usr/sbin/rhnreg_ks", line 244, in ? main() File "/usr/sbin/rhnreg_ks", line 205, in main ret = rhnreg.reserveUser(username, password) File "/usr/share/rhn/register/rhnreg.py", line 457, in reserveUser ret = doCall(s.registration.reserve_user, username, password) File "/usr/share/rhn/register/rhnreg.py", line 153, in doCall ret = apply(method, args) File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/xmlrpclib.py", line 689, in __call__ return self.__send(self.__name, args) File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/xmlrpclib.py", line 731, in __request request = dumps(params, methodname) File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/xmlrpclib.py", line 505, in dumps data = m.dumps(params) File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/xmlrpclib.py", line 264, in dumps self.__dump(v) File "/usr/lib/python1.5/site-packages/xmlrpclib.py", line 275, in __dump raise TypeError, "cannot marshal %s objects" % type(value) TypeError: cannot marshal <type 'None'> objects Of course I'd much rather crypt the password so people can't glean it from the kickstart file. Has anyone else tried to do this? Thanks, James _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list