KickstartDeprecationWarning: The pwpolicy command has been deprecated.

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Issue

  • Warning message KickstartDeprecationWarning: The pwpolicy command has been deprecated. is logged using Kickstart file from RHEL8.
  • Below log message appears in /var/log/anaconda/journal.log:

    anaconda: misc: /usr/lib64/python3.9/site-packages/pyanaconda/pwpolicy.py:237: KickstartDeprecationWarning: The pwpolicy command has been deprecated. It may be removed from future releases, which will result in a fatal error when it is encountered. Please modify your kickstart file to remove this command.
    
  • Kickstart file contains pwpolicy option:

    %anaconda
    pwpolicy root --minlen=6 --minquality=1 --notstrict --nochanges --notempty
    pwpolicy user --minlen=6 --minquality=1 --notstrict --nochanges --emptyok
    pwpolicy luks --minlen=6 --minquality=1 --notstrict --nochanges --notempty
    %end
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

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