When creating or customizing your Kickstart file, it is useful to verify that it is valid before attempting to use it in an installation. CentOS 7 includes the ksvalidator command line utility which can be used to do this. This tool is a part of the pykickstart package. To install this package, execute the following command as root:
When using the liveimg installation mode with a driver disk, drivers on the disk will not automatically be included in the installed system. If necessary, these drivers should be installed manually, or in the %post section of a kickstart script.
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Anaconda will produce an anaconda-ks.cfg configuration file at the end of any manual installation. This file can be used to automatically reproduce the same installation or edited (manually or with system-config-kickstart).
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With the recent announcement of the removal of Back to My Mac and Apple's recommendation to use ARD as a replacement, I was hoping to see some love tossed ARDs way. However, I am hearing rumblings that the kickstart command may also be in the crosshairs for removal/nerfing in the near future. As of Beta 8, I am seeing an ominous cloud on the horizon.
At this time, Beta 8 is allowing the use of the kickstart command but the command and the System Preferences user interface are not aligning. Nor do I have full control from kickstart. For example, the command above should have checked all the options in the Options... UI. However, when working directly on the machine (including after a reboot), no options are enabled. Yet I can observe the machine. Yes, kickstart started the service and granted me observe rights but not control. Likewise, I can run UNIX commands, copy files, and likely use every other feature of ARD other than control, or let users know when I am observing.
For those of us doing fleet deployments, the kickstart command is heavily leveraged during initial device setup to enable and configure the service, commonly through a script delivered by the management tool. Sure the command's syntax is weird and funky, but it is what gives it its charm and it works and has worked for years. To have that function removed would be very impactful. Forcing the physical touching of devices to enable the full function of the service is not an option. This is as bad as the start of 3rd party kernel extensions.
I have seen improvements in at least one relatively recent ARD update. I also hope that it continues to be configurable via the "kickstart" tool or something better, but the way things are going, everything seems to need user approval. And then mostly through the GUI.
So this brings up a new thought. Maybe we should be asking for new features in ARD instead of begging for continuation of previous function(s)? For example, allow admins to still use kickstart (or another method) to configure and enable the service. But build in a true authorization framework that prompts a console operator when a remote user is about to control/observe the screen. If the goal here is to protect the privacy of the user's active session, then enhance ARD so a tech can request view/control of an active session while allowing institutions to still centrally manage the configuration of the service. This would allow the service to be enabled and controlled, allow the admin to login and control an independent session, and protect the provacy of the user's experience by notifying the user that someone is attempting to view/control, giving the active console user the ability to decide if they want to allow the operation to continue.
It's been a long time (excluding the recent secure token chaos) since I've needed to make excusses and craft workarounds for things that should just work. I don't want to go back to those days. kickstart might seem like a strang hill to die on, but as you said, "everything seems to need user approval" and that is what is keeping me up at night worrying about future mass deployments. I don't want to go back to touching every device during a deployment. I've become to lazy, ah... efficient, in the DEP/VPP/MDM model.
5. Went over to a different Mac with the latest ARD admin installed and was successfully able to control the machine that kickstart was run on as both users. Same if I quit ARD and use vnc:// from Go --> Connect to Server
3) When doing code upgrade, both kickstart and system image must be compatible. If the kickstart and system image are not compatible, ISSU will fail. To make it simple, I would just upgrade both kickstart and system image to the same version. For example, if I want to upgrade a N7K to 5.1(1) with ISSU, the CLI will be similar as follow:
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