Installing packages that require user input (e.g. NIS) ?

[Sandra Schlichting]

Hi all

I would like to install NIS, but how do I handle such a package which prompts for user input, when "apt-get install nis" is done on Ubuntu?

Hugs,

Sandra

[Craig White]

On Sep 12, 2012, at 7:40 AM, Sandra Schlichting wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I would like to install NIS, but how do I handle such a package which prompts for user input, when "apt-get install nis" is done on Ubuntu?

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figure out if nis packages support having an 'answer' file available to provide the input for those questions and if so, have puppet put the file into place prior to installing the packages.

Also, fwiw - I don't use NIS but I do use LDAP everywhere and I have found that asserting control and content over the configuration files (/etc/nsswitch.conf and others - primarily /etc/pam.d files), that the answers to the post-install configuration script are already handled.

Craig

[Sandra Schlichting]

figure out if nis packages support having an 'answer' file available to provide the input for those questions and if so, have puppet put the file into place prior to installing the packages.

Great. It does. Thanks =)

These links were useful

http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed

http://serverfault.com/questions/228266/how-do-i-generate-a-response-file-to-be-used-with-apt-get-or-aptitude

apt-get install nis

debconf-get-selections | grep nis > nis.seed

--edit nis.seed--

debconf-set-selections nis.seed