Error: pykickstart.errors.KickstartError: /usr/sbin/authconfig is missing. Cannot setup authentication.
Issue
-
When using kickstart to provision a
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
system this error is logged and the installation stops:
pykickstart.errors.KickstartError: /usr/sbin/authconfig is missing. Cannot setup authentication
is logged toanaconda-tb-
and installation does not complete. -
This line is in the provisioning template:
authconfig --useshadow --passalgo=SHA256 --kickstart
Environment
Red Hat Satellite 6
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8(RHEL)
Kickstart default template
- provisioning
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