Re: Kickstart over FTP with username and password integration

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Sun, 2007-06-03 at 04:39 -0500, Jasper Hartline wrote:
> Upon testing Anaconda from an older era, using for example: vmlinuz 
> initrd=initrd.img ksdevice=eth0 ks=ftp://username:password host/path/ks.cfg
> I notice FTP does not work unless it is an anonymous FTP server usage 
> for which to retrieve the kickstart file.
[snip]
> Can someone send me in the right direction as far as locating up to date 
> source code
> within Anaconda that deals with the ks=ftp:// option to the loader?

ftp.[ch] is just the low-level FTP bits and likely isn't where the
problem lies.  I'd think that the parsing code in
loader2/urlinstall.c:getFileFromUrl() is the most likely culprit

Jeremy