RE: Kickstart User Creation

[Zouhir Hafidi <Zouhir Hafidi agat univ-lille1 fr>]

>>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).
>
>Yes, they would be similar (but not identical). shadow file entries
>beginning with $1$ indicate md5-crypted passwords (which you want), and
>the random salt will cause the actual stored value to change.
>
>As I've recommended before, the best way I've seen to generate cryptpw's
>is:
>
>$ openssl passwd -1
>Password: secret!
>$1$ZhEKgpbS$KtmSr63TRqGQ1NcGXCaR01
>
>Openssl only asks once, so you might want to verify the output:
>(notice the salt is between the second and third $ signs)
>
>$ openssl passwd -1 -salt ZhEKgpbS
>Password: secret!
>$1$ZhEKgpbS$KtmSr63TRqGQ1NcGXCaR01
>
>

you can also use grub-md5-crypt which is useful if
openssl is not installed on your system

ZH
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