topic Re: kickstart disk in Operating System - Linux

kickstart disk

steven Burgess_2 — Wed, 02 Oct 2002 09:46:48 GMT

Hi all

I am attempting to add a user via the %post task on my kickstart disk

my

chkconfig -- telnet on

is ok

The user add command is

/usr/sbin/useradd -m -u 101 -g 101 -c "de user" -d /home/de -s /bin/tcsh de
/usr/sbin/usermod -p '$1$A1loilhN$0wkwN8eZeUjmRUB7Bjw021' de

This fails

Any ideas ?

I can issue the usermod -p command with success from the command line

Thanks in advance

Steve

Re: kickstart disk

Stuart Browne — Wed, 02 Oct 2002 23:37:12 GMT

Well, both of those commands pass with flying colors outside of a KS environment..

Things to check:

When the KS is running, watch the 4th VTY (umm.. I think it's the 4th *crigne* been a while). It should have the output of the KS commands. See which of those two lines failes.

As the default build-commands (i.e. anaconda KS file) has basiclaly identical commands (it's just adding a user afterall)...

One dumb question however. Are the 'tcsh' packages being installed, and is that package modifying the /etc/shells file to say that it's a valid shell?

Re: kickstart disk

steven Burgess_2 — Thu, 03 Oct 2002 06:42:00 GMT

Hi Stuart

Thanks for the reply

Please excuse me. This is my first week with linux

What do you mean by '4th VTY' I was wondering where i could see the commands from the %post

Also

Is it possible to test a kickstart disk as opposed to attempting an install with the disk. Having the commands fail, make the changes, reattempt the install etc etc

Thanks again

Steve

Re: kickstart disk

Stuart Browne — Thu, 03 Oct 2002 22:11:01 GMT

What I mean by the "4th VTY", is the 4th virtual terminal. If you prses CTRL-ALT-F4 during the install, you'll change to a text-screen with various details. I beleive the 4th one has the %post output.

If not, it's either the 2nd, 3rd. (ALT-F7 will return to the GUI installation, ALT-F1 to the TEXT installation).

No, I do not know of a way to 'test' a KS configuration without running it.. sorry.