Is it possible to retrieve the kickstart file from secured ftp server?
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.0
Issue
- Is it possible to retrieve the kickstart file from secured ftp server?
Resolution
- It's possible to retrieve the
kickstart
file from the securedftp
server with the followinganaconda
boot parameter.
ks=ftp://<username>:<password>/path/to/URL/ks.cfg
- If it does not work, insert additional
/
, see FTP URL format (in detail:2.5. Interpreting a FTP URL
).
ks=ftp://<username>:<password>//path/to/URL/ks.cfg
- You can test the
kickstart
file retrieval by:
~]$ curl -vvv ftp://<username>:<password>//path/to/URL/ks.cfg
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