Re: Few questions

[Matt Fahrner <Matt.Fahrner@xxxxxxxx>]

You can also use the following scripts to generate hash strings on the fly:

http://sial.org/howto/perl/password-crypt/

- Matt

Alan McKay wrote:

* add a user (for some reason I get a prompt for root password but no
 user creation). Do I have to use firstboot for this ?
    

I do this in my kickstart %post and it works fine

/usr/sbin/adduser amckay -p '$1$SGsRpvZG$4JInUk0a.zIoUhboL39v./'

To get the encrypted string just take it from an existing password file.


  

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