Can you set a blank root passwd with a kickstart file?

[Mats Karlsson]

niall el-assaad wrote:
> Hi,
> Is there a way of setting the "rootpw" entry so that there is no root
> password.
>
> I want to make the iso install completely and then ask the user to change
> the root password on first login.
>
> So they would just enter
> login: root
>
> then it will ask them to change their password.
>
> I can get the second part to happen with "chage -d0 root" in the %post
> section, but can't get it to install without a password in the first place.
>
> If I leave out the rootpw entry it asks me to enter one as part of anaconda.
>
> Is there some switch I can use with the rootpw entry to not have a password?
>
> thanks,
>
> niall
>   

Have you tried to set a "blank" password ?

If not, create a blank pw with :
perl -we 'print crypt("", "salt"). "\n"'

/Mats