Require user account setup during kickstart install before %post?

[Pushpendra Chavan]

Hi,

You can write a %pre script which would force ask user to enter username
and password or any other information and then write that information down
in a /tmp/somefile.txt
Then continue the installation, and in %post section, first %post would be
with --nochroot  where it will copy that text file to
/mnt/sysimage/somelocation
And then from that location, it would utilize that information and act
accordingly.

You can write the %pre section as follows. I have tested this on RHEL7

%pre
exec < /dev/tty7 > /dev/tty7
chvt 7
echo "Enter Manual Information in given format"
read MYINFO
echo $MYINFO >/tmp/test
chvt 1

%end

KICKSTART BODY


%post --nochroot

mv /tmp/test /mnt/sysimage/tmp/test

%end


%post

# Use /tmp/test to perform %post actions

%end



*Thanks,*
*Pushpendra Chavan.*



On Tue, Jun 29, 2021 at 1:39 AM Andrew Simpson <simpsonar77 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Is it possible to require/force a user to enter in their user account
> information before the install gets to the %post section via the graphical
> installer?  I need everything else to be automated, except this step, and
> need to modify that user's groups in the "post" section.  It appears that
> if nothing is entered via the GUI during install, that the install will
> complete without it.  (root is setup as part of the ks).
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