# From: Ole Streicher [mailto:ole-suse-autoyast@gmx.net] # Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 4:54 AM # Subject: RE: [suse-autoinstall] Autoyast woes .. sles9 # # depending on your situation I would better use the encrypted # alternative # since anyone who has access to the installation process can read the # autoyast file and thus the password. # # To use encryption, you set the "encrypted" element to true # and copy the # password field (from /etc/passwd resp. /etc/shadow) of a user with the # specified password to the "user_password" element. You can always also just start "yast autoyast", add a user (and do nothing else), save the results to a file, and go search the generated XML for the appropriate <user></user> section, and just do a copy/paste. That's what I ended up doing.