On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 05:35:22PM -0700, MGandra@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > I have an RPM package which will install and I need to get the Username and > Password for root user and write it to a config file. This is a very bad idea. It's a massive security hole, and it will break / won't work in all sorts of automated / GUI installation scenarios. Nevertheless, I did once work on an RPM for a proprietary database and in that RPM we had to ask for a license key to be entered during RPM installation. It does just work to read from stdin in the %post script. It was still a bad idea ... Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/ See what it can do: http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/libguestfs/recipes.html -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
