RE: Kickstart User Creation

[Jeff Lunde <Jeff_Lunde cnt com>]

Would getting the encrypted password from the /etc/shadow be the same as
copying the encryption text from a manually created Kickstart Configuration
file (meaning a KS.cfg file from a machine I created manually, including
adding the user & password manually during the install). 

Just trying to understand the kickstart process better.  

Cheers, 

JJL  

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Create the user account and then run usermod:
/usr/sbin/usermod -p '<encrypterd_password>' <userid>

To get the encrypted password, create a user account temporarily on 
another machine, assign it the password, and get the encrypted password 
from /etc/shadow.

Werner