[rhelv6-list] disable shadow in kickstart?

[Collins, Kevin [BEELINE]]

I think the Installation Guide should be corrected for the fact that it
says shadow is not enabled by default...

Kevin

-----Original Message-----
From: Justin Clift [mailto:jclift at redhat.com] 
Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 11:40 AM
To: Collins, Kevin [BEELINE]
Cc: rhelv6-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [rhelv6-list] disable shadow in kickstart?

Just created a bug ticket about the man page not showing the same
options
as authconfig --help.

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=660444

That should lead to getting the man page updated at some point. :)


On 07/12/2010, at 4:39 AM, Collins, Kevin [BEELINE] wrote:

> Thanks - that did exactly what I wanted.
> 
> Kevin
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhelv6-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:rhelv6-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Prentice Bisbal
> Sent: Monday, December 06, 2010 6:10 AM
> To: rhelv6-list at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [rhelv6-list] disable shadow in kickstart?
> 
> 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