Would just like to thank you. My whole problem was i was adding the users
before i did my up2date after the kickstart. I now do my up2date after
kickstart, then run my script that dumps all the config and data over to the
servers and the passwords are now working great. Thought there for a
In trying to get together a disaster recovery plan a good friend of mine
Richard Rager wrote this script for me:
#!/bin/sh
# echo test
for a in `cat users.txt`
do
{
u=(`echo $a | cut -f 1 -d ':'`);
p=(`echo $a | cut -f 2 -d ':'`);
echo User: $u
echo Password: $p
adduser -s /bin/false $u
It is not a bug in chpasswd, it is a bug in PAM. Get the pam updates from
updates.redhat.com and install them. Then it will work fine. I filed a
bugzilla report on this a day or two after 7.2 was released and never heard
back, then did a bugzilla search last week to find the fix was
