N1 Grid Service Provisioning System User's Guide and Release Notes for the OS Provisioning Plug-In 1.0

Solaris: Wrong Encryption of root Password Causes JumpStart Error (6245964)

Description: You see the following messages during installation and the installation becomes interactive:


root_password=Clz6pK2b6qw=
	syntax error  line 2 position 15

The password variable sysidcfg_root_password_base_conf in the Solaris OS profile has a encrypted value. However, the password that you supplied was not a Solaris-encrypted password..

Workaround: Use the Solaris tools to encrypt the password. The appropriate mechanism for a user to create an encrypted password is to create a user with a password. Look in the /etc/shadow file for the encrypted password and use it in as a value for the sysidcfg_root_password_base_conf variable.