Not able to create users from control file.

17 Aug 2004

      The relevant portion of my autoinst.xml file

<configure>
  <security>
    <encryption>md5</encryption>
    <cwd_in_root_path>no</cwd_in_root_path>
    <passwd_use_cracklib>yes</passwd_use_cracklib>
   </security>
    <users config:type="list">
      <user>
        <username>root</username>
        <user_password>**password in clear text**</user_password>
        <encrypted config:type="boolean">true</encrypted>
        <forename/>
        <surname/>
      </user>
      <user>
        <username>admin</username>
        <user_password>**password in clear text**</user_password>
        <encrypted config:type="boolean">true</encrypted>
        <forename/>
        <surname/>
      </user>
    </users>
</configure>

When the installation completes, there is no password assigned to root.
The user "admin" doesn't get created either.

I can use useradd after the install to create users, however, the home
directory does not get created.

In a possibly related problem.  sshd fails to start because the user
"sshd" is not created when the RPM installs.  I'm using the sshd package
from the 9.1 professional CD.

Am I missing some yast packages?  I'm at a loss.

-K

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Kevin Stallard <kstallard@lancope.com>