LinuxQuestions.org - [SOLVED] Trouble with kickstart file's post script section

Hello everyone,

I've been working on a script that generates a kickstart file for RHEL 6.3. Everything seems to work correctly except for an issue with the %post ..... %end section. It seems that if I have a section that’s utilizes cat and EOF it ignores the EOF. Please see the example below.

Code:

%post 



cat << EOF >> /etc/passwd

user1:x:1000:1000::/home/user1:/bin/bash

......................

......................

......................

EOF 



cat << EOF >> /etc/shadow

user1:fsdfsdf#@$$@324fdsfsgs1233:15658:0:99999:7:::

......................

......................

......................

EOF



......................

......................

......................



%end

What I would expect to happen would be that the above would be appended to passwd and shadow. However, what I end up with is all of the above including the ending EOFs in passwd. I'm not clear as to why this is occurring. I've tested the above script in a bash script run on a local machine without issue.

Any direction would be much appreciated.