Unable to kickstart Centos 8 - root password error

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anfieldroad
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Unable to kickstart Centos 8 - root password error

Post by anfieldroad » 2021/10/08 05:14:33

Hi,

I trying to kickstart CentOS 8 and keep running into a python error in anaconda during the Configure root password task:

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The error shown gives NO search results on google so it looks like nobody else is seeing this issue?!?

In the kickstart file I have tried all the below including using the deprectated authconfig as well as authselect:

authconfig --enableshadow --passalgo=sha512
authselect --useshadow --passalgo sha512
authselect select minimal

Neither have made any difference. I have found references in the documentation to authselect using yescrypt but no documentation showing how to actually use this, how to generate a yescrypt password hash, or even if that is the hash rootpw --iscrypted is expecting?!?

All the examples I have seen have used the form of root password config I am using:
rootpw --iscrypted $6$<hash>

I have tried my original hash from my previous centos and rhel 7 kickstarts as well as one generated on centos8, all to no avail.

This clearly works for others so what am I doing wrong?

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