On Tue, 15 Jul 2014, Matthew Miller wrote:
Except that currently, anaconda won't let you lock the root password if you don't create a user. (There's a bug report for this somewhere.) In Fedora, we're currently working around it by creating the user and the removing in %post.
Wouldn't passing a 'locked' hash into anaconda for root attain that?
-- Russ herrold