Hi all, Thanks Benjamin and Thomas for the hints about root password and sound. For the root password we have tried the hint from Thomas: <user> .. <user_password> ... </user_password> .. </user> Unfortunately it did not work. If I enter a password then I cannot log in as root. Possibly the root password entered is not the one set in the control file. Is there an idea how to fix this? Also using a perl script to enter a root password in /etc/shadow as recommended my Benjamin did not work. The script did not enter anything in /etc/shadow. May be there is a mistake, which we cannot discover at once! After a lot of trials we decided to autoinstall one workstation without a root password. Then we changed the root passord after first login. We copied the resulted /etc/shadow to the installation server. During the autoinstallation of other workstations we just coppied this file to /etc/shadow. Then we could use the root password we set on the first workstation. Sound: This has also not worked either. After using <volume_entry> ... </volume_entry> to set the volume of Master to 75, the volume of master after autoinstallalion was still 0. At the first login of root yast2 start with the message that a new (sound) component is found and goes on to configure it. I have included the fragments of the control file to show the 1. <sound> ... </sound> to show the section of setting volume. 2. section <user> ... </user>, which is now commented out 3. <sript> ... </script> to copy the created shadow to /etc/shadow 4. <sript> ... </script> to show the perl script to enter the root pasword in /etc/shadow ... <configure> ... <sound> <autoinstall config:type="boolean">true</autoinstall> <modules_conf config:type="list"> <module_conf> <alias>snd-card-0</alias> <model>82801DB-ICH4, Intel</model> <module>snd-intel8x0</module> <options> <snd_ac97_clock>0</snd_ac97_clock> <snd_enable>1</snd_enable> <snd_index>0</snd_index> </options> <unique_key>uniq.virtual</unique_key> </module_conf> </modules_conf> <volume_settings config:type="list"> <volume_entry> <Master config:type="integer">75</Master> </volume_entry> </volume_settings> </sound> ... <!-- <users config:type="list"> <user> <encrypted config:type="boolean">false</encrypted> <username>root</username> <user_password></user_password> <forename></forename> <surname></surname> </user> </users> --> <scripts> <post-scripts config:type="list"> <script> <filename>post.sh</filename> <interpreter>shell</interpreter> <source> <![CDATA[ #!/bin/sh echo "-- Post-Scripts --" ... cp /packages/configs/etc/shadow /etc/ ... ]]> </source> </script> <script> <filename>setrootpw</filename> <interpreter>shell</interpreter> <source> <![CDATA[ #!/bin/sh echo "root-Passwort setzen" /usr/bin/perl -pi -e 's/^root:.*/root:RNChlL1Yh4VhY:12510:0:10000::::/' /etc/shadow ]]> </source> </script> </post-scripts> </scripts> </configure> Thanks Dominic On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Benjamin P Myers wrote:

On Tuesday 30 March 2004 08:04 am, Thomas Mack wrote:

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Am Dienstag, 30. März 2004 16:30 schrieb Dominic Lukwata:

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Hi all,

we autoinstall Suse 9.0. It work better and better but there still some problems:

1. we have not succeeded to set a root passowrd per autoinstall.

<users config:type="list"> <user> <username>root</username> <user_password>7O4i0guZ.S.ps</user_password> <encrypted>true</encrypted> <forename/> <surname/> </user> </users>

I'm unable to get the above section to work on 8.1, but there is a workaround from the archives:

<post-scripts config:type="list"> <script> <filename>setrootpw</filename> <interpreter>shell</interpreter> <source>

<![CDATA[#!/bin/sh /usr/bin/perl -pi -e 's/^root::.*/root:[encrypted passwd]::0:10000::::/' /etc/shadow ]]>

</source> </script>

This works fine for me. hth -ben

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