example xml file here: http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~mr349/suse/ay.xml <users config:type="list"> <user> <encrypted config:type="boolean">true</encrypted> <user_password>XXXXXXXX</user_password> <username>root</username> </user> </users> The user_passwd needs to be of the encrypted form, not plain text. Is sshd not part of your standard installation? Did you specify the home dir for useradd to create? Mike Rose TCM & Biological Physics Computer Officer University of Cambridge http://www.bio.phy.cam.ac.uk/ http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/ On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Kevin Stallard wrote:

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

-- Kevin Stallard <kstallard@lancope.com>

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