spaces in root password.

[Matthew Burling]

Rajarshi,

You need to encrypt your password and put that text in the kickstart
file. You can do this with htpasswd.

Matthew

On 5/23/06, rajarshi das <dazio_r at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> All,
>
> In my kickstart configuration file, the root password entry looks like :
>
> rootpw r r r
>
> I have set the root password to (5 chars) : "r" <space> "r" <space> "r".
>
> This configuration file is specified as ks=<filename> in lilo.conf.
>
> However, the installation fails with the following error msg :
>
> "Kickstart.kickstartvalueerror: A single argument is expected rootpw
> Install exited abnormally"
>
> What are the possible reasons for this error ?
>
> Thanks,
> Rajarshi.
>
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