The following can be used for none interactive installations ( Stage 2 ) $ export TERM=vt100 $ screen -D -m yast /usr/share/YaST2/clients/ayast_setup.ycp setup filename=/tmp/ldap.xml To debug zou have to use the screen command and attach to the running session. saying so the command $ yast /usr/share/YaST2/clients/ayast_setup.ycp setup filename=/tmp/ldap.xml should be tested beforehand. Also you should not use a full blown cloned xml file - imho - but strip it down to the needed settings. Another tip. It might not be possible to reconfigure to ldap in one step thus you might change the system first to passwd (local) and then to ldap. At least i would go this way. Easier to debug as well. Thus you would have an xml file for converting back to passwd ( like noNis.xml ) and a ldap.xml My change from NIS to ldap will take a while. Cheers Hajo -----Original Message----- From: Rainer Krienke [mailto:krienke@uni-koblenz.de] Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 9:54 AM To: opensuse-autoinstall@opensuse.org Subject: [opensuse-autoinstall] Using autoyast non interactively in a call like: yast autoyast file filename config.xml Hello, I have a bunch of openSuSE desktops that are running in a network environment with central user management. User authentication for login is done up to now via a central NIS password database. Now I would like to change this and instead athenticate users against a central ldap server. This works when I configure it manually using yast on a already installed system but my problem is how can I automatically reconfigure existing desktops to use ldap instead of NIS. My idea was to use autoyast. So I configured one system, cloned it to get an autoyast config.xml file. Then on another system I wanted to reconfigure I started yast in the following manner: yast autoyast file filename config.xml -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help@opensuse.org