"Boylan, Ross" <ross.boy...@ucsf.edu> writes: > Thanks for the pointers. But is it really true that the 2 pieces of code > don't rely on the rest? They have > . /tmp/HandsOff-dbg-fn.sh > . /tmp/HandsOff-fn.sh
Actually, I was making it more complicated than it need be, just because I happened to have been looking at those scripts recently. The right way to do this is almost certainly by creating a new hook script, in an early script -- see: http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/doc/internals/apb.html#ap-hooks-general Here's an ancient example of doing that: http://hands.com/d-i/lenny/classes/koolu/early_script.disabled so pick the point in the install that you want to edit the passwd file, and just create a script in one of the hooks that will do that for you. If you're not sure which hook will suit best, start out by creating a few scripts that just contain: #!/bin/sh sleep 10001 || true (BTW I generally make each sleep have different last digit(s) so I can easily tell what's going on with: ps | grep sleep ) Then you can look around (on the Ctrl-Alt-F2 console) to see if the conditions are right for what you want to do, and if not, e.g. the /etc/passwd file's not yet been created, then kill the sleep and let it run on to the next one. Once you find a nice spot in the install, just change your early command to create a script that does what you want. Cheers, Phil. -- |)| Philip Hands [+44 (0)20 8530 9560] HANDS.COM Ltd. |-| http://www.hands.com/ http://ftp.uk.debian.org/ |(| Hugo-Klemm-Strasse 34, 21075 Hamburg, GERMANY
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