Comment 11 for bug 48918

I work with matt (the original reporter) and it is still not working for us. We got around it for a while with some sed magic.

Our user config section looks like:

rootpw --iscrypted xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
user --disabled
auth --useshadow --enablemd5 --enablenis --nisdomain ournisdomain --nisserver ournisserver

A shadow file is created with no root password (root:x:...)