Can you set a blank root passwd with a kickstart file?

[Klaus Steden]

I don¹t believe so, but you could stick a Œpasswd ­d root¹ in the Œ<post>¹
section of your Kickstart file to clobber it during the tail end of
installation.

cheers,
Klaus

On 6/25/08 2:30 PM, "niall el-assaad" <niallel at gmail.com>did etch on stone
tablets:

> Hi,
> 
> Is there a way of setting the "rootpw" entry so that there is no root
> password.
> 
> I want to make the iso install completely and then ask the user to change the
> root password on first login.
> 
> So they would just enter
> login: root
> 
> then it will ask them to change their password.
> 
> I can get the second part to happen with "chage -d0 root" in the %post
> section, but can't get it to install without a password in the first place.
> 
> If I leave out the rootpw entry it asks me to enter one as part of anaconda.
> 
> Is there some switch I can use with the rootpw entry to not have a password?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> niall
> 
> 
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