Re: [CentOS] disable virtual terminals during kickstart installation

On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, nate wrote:

James A. Peltier wrote:

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window during installation? It poses a security risk for unattended installs.

Unattended? use serial console

Even if you don't have one, doesn't matter since it's unattended!

nate

noshell was just what I needed. The kickstarts are configured to allow any system admin to start a kickstart and then walk away. 20 minutes later this is a fully patched fully configured installation of the operating system for them to work with. It is useful to have access to the other virtual terminals to see error messages if something fails. If we switched to using serial we'd have to connect to each individual machines serial port to see these errors.