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Chapter 1. Kickstart Installations 21

--enablesmbauth

Enables authentication of users against an SMB server (typically a Samba or

Windows server). SMB authentication support does not know about home

directories, UIDs, or shells. So if you enable it you will need to make users’

accounts known to the workstation by enabling LDAP, NIS, or Hesiod or by

using the /usr/sbin/useradd command to make their accounts known to the

workstation. To use this option, you must have the pam_smb package installed.

--smbservers=

The name of the server(s) to use for SMB authentication. To specify more than one

server, separate the names with commas (,).

--smbworkgroup=

The name of the workgroup for the SMB servers.

--enablecache

Enables the nscd service. The nscd service caches information about users, groups,

and various other types of information. Caching is especially helpful if you choose

to distribute information about users and groups over your network using NIS,

LDAP, or hesiod.

1.4.3. bootloader

bootloader (required)

Speciﬁes how the boot loader should be installed and whether the boot loader should

be LILO or GRUB.

--append

Speciﬁes kernel parameters.

--location=

Speciﬁes where the boot record is written. Valid values are the following: mbr (the

default), partition (installs the boot loader on the ﬁrst sector of the partition

containing the kernel), or none (do not install the boot loader).

--password=mypassword

If using GRUB, sets the GRUB boot loader password to mypassword. This should

be used to restrict access to the GRUB shell where arbitrary kernel options can be

passed.

--md5pass=mypassword

If using GRUB, similar to --password except mypassword should be the password

already encrypted.

--useLilo

Use LILO instead of GRUB as the boot loader.