Jeremy, Tried "noshell" in the kickstart boot parameters, exactly what I needed. Thank you much, John -----Original Message----- From: Jeremy Katz [mailto:katzj@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, September 20, 2005 12:53 PM To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: Re: screen lock for unattended kickstarts On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 12:17 -0400, Poole, John J wrote: > Does anyone know on a quick way to screenlock or disable keyboard entry during a kickstart install? It would be nice to help prevent tampering with the > install process on unattended loads. The lock process would have to include any console screens as well. Adding "noshell" to your boot parameters will make it so that the shell on tty2 won't be started. Then the only input would be if you left something out of your ks.cfg Jeremy