[rhelv6-list] disable shadow in kickstart?

[Prentice Bisbal]

Kevin,

Kickstart just calls the authconfig command, so any switch from the
authconfig command will work in kickstart. I've also found that
'authconfig --help' shows different options than 'man authconfig'.
'authconfig --help' shows that there is a disable option for shadow,
which is not listed in the man page:

$ authconfig --help | grep shadow
  --enableshadow, --useshadow
                        enable shadowed passwords by default
  --disableshadow       disable shadowed passwords by default


--
Prentice


Collins, Kevin [BEELINE] wrote:
> I have just confirmed that with no --enableshadow or --useshadow in my
> kickstart file, I am still ending up with a shadow-enabled system. There
> is no option listed to disable shadow, and the Installation Guide says
> “By default, passwords are normally encrypted and are not shadowed.”  Of
> course, this is about the 3^rd or 4^th item in the manual I have found
> to be completely wrong...
> 
>  
> 
> Any ideas? I can always turn it off after kickstart, but would rather
> prevent it to begin with.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>  
> 
> Kevin
> 
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