missing equals sign in user directive of ks.cfg
belfast77 opened this issue · comments
In the kickstart file you have a work around.
https://github.com/geerlingguy/packer-boxes/blob/master/centos8/http/ks.cfg
# Add vagrant user (user directive isn't working for some reason).
useradd vagrant
echo "vagrant" | passwd vagrant --stdin
usermod -a -G wheel vagrant
Your user directive is
#user --name=vagrant --plaintext --password vagrant --groups=wheel
I think you might be missing an equals sign, password seems to work for me in centos7 if I do this
--password=vagrant
The docs seem to say that also.
B.3.16. user
The user Kickstart command is optional. It creates a new user on the system.
Syntax
user --name=username [OPTIONS]
Mandatory options
--name= - Provides the name of the user. This option is required.
Optional options
--password= - The new user’s password. If not provided, the account will be locked by default. --iscrypted - If this option is present, the password argument is assumed to already be encrypted. This option is mutually exclusive with --plaintext. To create an encrypted password, you can use python:
I didn't do a PR as I'm using it with vSphere and not vagrant/virtualbox so couldn't test and confirm.
Oh... nice catch! I'll test this out locally and see if that's the fix. Thanks so much for posting the issue!
No problem, very glad to help. I see you've updated Centos8, however it wasn't working for me in Centos7 also. I'm not using vagrant/virtualbox box, so not using the user "vagrant" with pass "vagrant".
I'm using the vsphere-iso builder instead and therefore creating a different "ansible" user. Do you think your user is perhaps being created automatically by Vagrant and not by the user directive in the centos7 ks.cfg?
Hmm... that is strange—Vagrant doesn't create a default user, so maybe in CentOS 7 that directive worked still even without the explicit =
? I'm updating it too now...
For some reason it still doesn't work even with the correct syntax. I have no clue why, but adding the useradd
seems to work, where the command:
user --name=vagrant --plaintext --password=vagrant --groups=vagrant,wheel
Does not.
I'll revert the 'fix' since that wasn't working and will keep it as is for now. Not a big deal IMO but it is a mystery.