/etc/shadow

[Binand Sethumadhavan]

On 02/10/06, Joshua Jensen <jjensen at cisco.com> wrote:
> > I was having this exact same problem last week. The files themselves are
> > in Sysvinit and setup packages, however it is the authconfig package
> > that I believe you may be missing. Feel free to contact me if you'd like
> > some more information.
>
>
> I 2nd this.  Are you installing with "%packages --nobase" ?  Anaconda
> needs authconfig to create /etc/shadow.  Future versions of anaconda
> will force install authconfig, regardless package selection.  For now,
> just make sure authconfig gets installed.

Thanks to Zack & Joshua; it was indeed the missing authconfig package.  I ran:

authconfig --useshadow --kickstart

and it generated the proper /etc/shadow for me. So I have now updated
my comps.xml to include authconfig package.

My comps.xml is completely homegrown; it has just one <group> with all
the packages my server install needs (about 150 or so) and nothing
more. I had removed authconfig (in fact, removed all the
redhat-config-*/similar packages) to get to a minimal build.

Binand