Re: Kickstart User Creation

[John <red computerdatasafe com au>]

On Sun, 27 Apr 2003, Robert Denton wrote:

> I am trying to use the kickstart post installation script to create a user
> _with_ a password.  I have tried:
> 
> useradd -G root -p menace phantom
> 
> To create a user by the name of phantom with a the password menace.  This
> didn't work and after a review of the man page associated with useradd, it
> would seem that if you are going to include the password in this command you
> need to supply it in an encrypted form (with crypt(3)) and I am not quite
> certain how to do that.  I also considered going the other route:
> 
> useradd -G root phantom
> passwd phantom
> 
> But that requires further interaction and this doesn't seem to be possible
> in a kickstart post installation script.  Has anyone tried this at all? I
> would appreciate any advice regarding the best way to do this.

I'm pretty sure you can do that with expect. However, I'm sure someone
will come up with a better way.


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