Anaconda Kickstart Documentation
- Authors:
Brian C. Lane <bcl@redhat.com>
Anaconda uses kickstart to parse and generate kickstart files.
Automatically load the Kickstart file
If you need to load Kickstart file automatically you can store your Kickstart file as /ks.cfg
into the storage device which is accessible during the boot process and is labeled as OEMDRV
.
Such a device is automatically discovered during boot and the Kickstart file will be used.
%anaconda
The %anaconda
kickstart section contains commands to control the behavior of Anaconda.
Deprecated since Fedora 34.
Removed since Fedora 36.
pwpolicy
program: pwpolicy <name> [--minlen=LENGTH] [--minquality=QUALITY] [--strict|notstrict] [--emptyok|notempty] [--changesok|nochanges]
Set the policy to use for the named password entry.
name
Name of the password entry, currently supported values are: root, user and luks
--minlen
(6)Minimum password length. This is passed on to libpwquality.
--minquality
(1)Minimum libpwquality to consider good. When using
--strict
it will not allow passwords with a quality lower than this.--strict
Strict password enforcement. Passwords not meeting the
--minquality
level will not be allowed.--notstrict
(DEFAULT)Passwords not meeting the
--minquality
level will be allowed after Done is clicked twice.--emptyok
(DEFAULT)Allow empty password.
--notempty
Don’t allow an empty password
--changesok
Allow UI to be used to change the password/user when it has already been set in the kickstart.
--nochanges
(DEFAULT)Do not allow UI to be used to change the password/user if it has been set in the kickstart.
The defaults for interactive installations are set in the /usr/share/anaconda/interactive-defaults.ks
file provided by Anaconda. If a product, such as Fedora Workstation, wishes to override them
then a product.img
needs to be created with a new version of the file included.
When using a kickstart the defaults can be overridded by placing an %anaconda
section into
the kickstart, like this:
%anaconda
pwpolicy root --minlen=10 --minquality=60 --strict --notempty --nochanges
%end
Note
The commit message for pwpolicy included some incorrect examples.
Deprecated since Fedora 34.
Note
You can use the configuration option password_policies
.
Removed since Fedora 35.
installclass
installclass --name=<name>
Require the specified install class to be used for the installation. Otherwise, the best available install class will be used.
--name=
Name of the required install class.
Removed since Fedora 30.
Note
You can use the boot options inst.product
and inst.variant
.