On 02/10/06, Joshua Jensen <jjensen@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I was having this exact same problem last week. The files themselves are > in Sysvinit and setup packages, however it is the authconfig package > that I believe you may be missing. Feel free to contact me if you'd like > some more information. I 2nd this. Are you installing with "%packages --nobase" ? Anaconda needs authconfig to create /etc/shadow. Future versions of anaconda will force install authconfig, regardless package selection. For now, just make sure authconfig gets installed.
Thanks to Zack & Joshua; it was indeed the missing authconfig package. I ran: authconfig --useshadow --kickstart and it generated the proper /etc/shadow for me. So I have now updated my comps.xml to include authconfig package. My comps.xml is completely homegrown; it has just one <group> with all the packages my server install needs (about 150 or so) and nothing more. I had removed authconfig (in fact, removed all the redhat-config-*/similar packages) to get to a minimal build. Binand
