[Spacewalk-list] Equal signs in variables and kernel options

[Jan Pazdziora]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 12:22:52PM +0000, Sascha Bendix wrote:
> 
> I have multiple ldap domains for different systems managed by my central spacewalk 1.7 server on CentOS 6.2.
> 
> As I want to use the same sinppets for configuring authentication, I would like to put it as variable into the kickstart file.
> 
> If I do this I get an error message like the following as soon as the is an equal sign in the value:
> 
> > You have specified an invalid variable: 'LDAP_BASEDN="dc=example,dc=com'. Variables should be name value pairs, separated by a '=' symbol, with each pair being separated by a new line. For example: 'ip=192.168.0.1'
> 
> I tried different ways to escape it, but was not successful.
> 
> Does anyone know how I can/have to escape the equal signs ??

There is not way to escape it. Tomáš L. now changed Spacewalk master
(commit 739614b3b5eaec0a034cc6f4876e887dfb101ae1) to allow equal signs
in the variable values.

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Jan Pazdziora
Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat