Re: Kickstart User Creation

[Philip Rowlands <phr doc ic ac uk>]

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.

Suggest you read the thread "encrypting passwords for rootpw" here:
https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/kickstart-list/2003-January/thread.html

To summarise, create [MD5] crypted passwords like this:

$ openssl passwd -1
Password: menace (not echoed)
$1$l3x.fg9z$Nps0q.xBjGF9oVMYoe7HB.


Cheers,
Phil

P.S. Any password which appears in /usr/share/dict/words is asking for
trouble.