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Description of problem:

When a system is installed in fips mode. ie. when fips=1 kernel parameter is given to anaconda, anaconda automatically installs dracut-fips and supply fips=1 and boot=... parameters to kernel in bootloader so that the system is in fips mode after the reboot.

But no action with prelink is done and hence it is enabled after the installation and when cryptographic libraries gets prelinked system is corrupted. 

According to customer portal - in fips mode, prelink should be either disabled (prelink -ua && PRELINKING=no in /etc/sysconfig/prelink) or removed.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Installer in RHEL-6.6-20140926.0 (RC 1.3)

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Set kernel parameter fips=1 before system installation.
2. Log in the installed system.
3. Verify that /proc/sys/crypto/fips_enabled contains 1.
4. Check that prelink is installed.

Actual results:

prelink-3.1.el6_4 installed and enabled 

Expected results:

prelink disabled or removed

Additional info:

N/A

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 697938 ***