On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 11:29, James S. Martin wrote: > 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: > You can't use a crypted password here (because kickstart would have to be able to decrypt it to use it to login), but what you can do is login to RHN and use the 'Activation Keys' feature to generate a key that will allow you to register to your account without specifying the password at all to rhnreg_ks, you will just use the activation key instead. -- Jason Kohles jkohles@xxxxxxxxxx Senior Engineer Red Hat Professional Consulting
