kickstart useradd

[Charles Howse]

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Hi,
I'm building a custom kickstart file.

The first question I have is:
When I installed manually, on the first boot, I was prompted to agree to the 
license agreement, create a user, etc.

Does that happen when doing a kickstart install?

If not, I need to know how to set the new user's password from a script.

I have the following from the Red Hat 9 documentation on kickstart %post 
configuration:

/usr/sbin/useradd charles
/usr/bin/chfn -f "Charles Howse" charles
#/usr/sbin/usermod -p 'kjdf$04930FTH/ ' charles

The user charles already exists on my system, and has an entry in /etc/shadow.

I want to preserve the existing password, with the default expiration, etc for 
charles.  I don't care if the password is encrypted or not in the script.

Can I just copy the contents of /etc/shadow for charles between the first and 
second colons to the commented line above?

Is there a way to set the password unencrypted?

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Charles Howse
Jackson, TN
Registered Linux user # 347576 (http://counter.li.org)
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