Description of problem: After performing a kickstart install, was unable to log in. Initial thoughts were mis-typed (or incorrect) rootpw in the kickstart file. After trying the kickstart file with a known good crypted passwd (using "auth --useshadow --enablemd5" and "rootpw --iscrypted ..."), still could not log in. Rebooted into single-user mode and attempted to change passwd, but received "passwd: Authentication token manipulation error". Went to manually clear password in /etc/shadow, and noticed file does not exist. Checked /etc/passwd, and root passwd entry was "*". Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda-11.1.0.83-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Perform (apparently) successful kickstart installation 2. Attempt to log in after install completes and rebooted Actual results: Cannot log in. Expected results: Able to successfully log in. Additional info: Attaching kickstart file (with redacted password -- I know it's good, and even if it wasn't /etc/shadow should still be created).
Created attachment 134496 [details] kickstart file used for install
Okay... after looking into this further, I found why /etc/shadow was not being created. The explicit exclusion of packages in the kickstart file I attached (which worked under FC5 kickstart) was excluding the authconfig package. The authconfig package is used by anaconda to perform authentication setup, and the lack of the package caused an error to be logged in /var/log/anaconda.log (which I didn't know existed when I originally posted this bug). After reading through the entire anaconda.log, I also noticed an error when anaconda attempted to run lokkit to setup the firewall. I removed the package exclusions for authconfig and system-config-securitylevel-tui and re-ran the install. All appears correct now. Although the original summary and description no longer apply, I believe the greater underlying bug is the fact that errors occurred during the install that left the system in an incorrect state, yet anaconda completed the install and reboot without providing any indication of the error.
Created attachment 134497 [details] anaconda.log file when the 2 packages were excluded
This will be fixed in the next build of anaconda.