Few questions

[Alan McKay]

> * add a user (for some reason I get a prompt for root password but no
>  user creation). Do I have to use firstboot for this ?

I do this in my kickstart %post and it works fine

/usr/sbin/adduser amckay -p '$1$SGsRpvZG$4JInUk0a.zIoUhboL39v./'

To get the encrypted string just take it from an existing password file.


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