[PATCH 1/3] Add the User creation spoke including the Advanced dialog

Chris Lumens clumens at redhat.com
Wed Feb 13 21:50:43 UTC 2013


> > (2) What happens to the add user spoke (and the root password spoke,
> > for
> > that matter) if this is a kickstart install and the information is
> > already provided in the kickstart file?  I've not tried this.
> 
> I haven't tried this yet.. but what should I do with crypted password?
> Any ideas?

Both the user and rootpw commands accept a --iscrypted paramter (or, an
isCrypted argument if you're using it programmatically).  You can just
store the encrypted password in the password attr and then set
isCrypted.

> > (3) And then the reverse of that - if I fill in add user (and root
> > password), will those make it into /root/anaconda-ks.cfg?  I've not
> > tried this either.
> 
> This works as expected and I tested it.

Great, thanks.

> > You will also need to add all your new files to po/POTFILES.in.  I
> > really wish there were a better way to handle this, but I don't know
> > that there is.
> 
> Ah, I knew I forgot something..

Yeah, everyone does.  It's just so hidden out of the way.

- Chris


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