Error: pykickstart.errors.KickstartError: /usr/sbin/authconfig is missing. Cannot setup authentication.

Solution Verified - Updated -

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 to anaconda-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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