[Spacewalk-list] Heads up on Centos 6

[Mark Watts]

On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 14:29:47 +0100, James Hogarth
<james.hogarth at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Initial tests on day 1.... if /updates/ is enabled along with base
> MAKEDEV refuses to install... for the kickstart itself make sure that
> updates isn't enabled.... a yum update can be done in post or after
> the system is up to bring it up to date.

Interesting - I didn't have that issue and I do have Updates available as
a child channel (and used during install).
I'm using VMware ESXi 4.1u1, if that matters.

> Spacewalk still has --enablemd5 in it's kickstart generation by
> default and the encrypted root password id md5 encryption... remove
> the --enablemd5 from the advanced options page and regenerate the root
> password after install (the encrypted form can be put back in
> spacewalk if you like) to use the more up to date SHA hash method.

Good catch.

Mark.

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Mark Watts, BSc RHCE
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