screen lock for unattended kickstarts

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Tue Sep 20 16:53:28 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 12:17 -0400, Poole, John J wrote:
>     Does anyone know on a quick way to screenlock or disable keyboard entry during a kickstart install? It would be nice to help prevent tampering with the
> install process on unattended loads. The lock process would have to include any console screens as well.

Adding "noshell" to your boot parameters will make it so that the shell
on tty2 won't be started.  Then the only input would be if you left
something out of your ks.cfg

Jeremy




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