Sorry to reply to my own post, but just found this: http://live.debian.net/manual/html/live-manual.en.html#495
So it might be user-setup rather than debconf... off to try it now! Nick/. On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 06:19:42PM +0000, Nick Bailey wrote: > Thanks intrigeri and Ronny for the pointer to the preseed for > passwd/user-default-groups. I put the list of groups I wanted > in config/chroot_local-preseed/user, and later in > config/preseed/user-groups.preseed.chroot instead (which might be the "new" > place to put it -- I read the manual!) and in both cases user ends up > with only a subset of the groups specified. So: > > root@ingrid:~/smrg-live# cat config/preseed/user-groups.preseed.chroot > debconf passwd/user-default-groups string audio cdrom dip floppy video > plugdev netdev powerdev scanner bluetooth iocard > > user@debian:~ groups > user cdrom floppy audio dip video plugdev scanner netdev bluetooth > > This is on 3.0~a40-1. > > Also: > > root@ingrid:~/smrg-live# grep iocard *.log > binary.log:creating iocard group... > binary.log:Adding group `iocard' (GID 112) ... > > /etc/groups on the target machine has iocard:x:112: which I think I would > expect. The group is created as a result of setting up the libcomedi0 > package at chroot build time. There is no other reference to iocard in > binary.log. > > The only other thing of significance is that during squashfs creation, I get > > Parallel mksquashfs: Using 1 processor > Creating 4.0 filesystem on filesystem.squashfs, block size 131072. > > Exportable Squashfs 4.0 filesystem, gzip compressed, data block size 131072 > compressed data, compressed metadata, compressed fragments, > compressed x > attrs > duplicates are removed > Filesystem size 1055883.25 Kbytes (1031.14 Mbytes) > 41.23% of uncompressed filesystem size (2560980.52 Kbytes) > Inode table size 1001348 bytes (977.88 Kbytes) > 29.43% of uncompressed inode table size (3402475 bytes) > Directory table size 949231 bytes (926.98 Kbytes) > 39.01% of uncompressed directory table size (2433281 bytes) > Xattr table size 36 bytes (0.04 Kbytes) > 90.00% of uncompressed xattr table size (40 bytes) > Number of duplicate files found 4389 > Number of inodes 97954 > Number of files 76719 > Number of fragments 8345 > Number of symbolic links 14651 > Number of device nodes 203 > Number of fifo nodes 2 > Number of socket nodes 0 > Number of directories 6379 > Number of ids (unique uids + gids) 21 > Number of uids 5 > root (0) > man (6) > unknown (102) > libuuid (100) > unknown (104) > Number of gids 19 > root (0) > unknown (103) > audio (29) > tty (5) > kmem (15) > disk (6) > adm (4) > dip (30) > shadow (42) > utmp (43) > crontab (102) > unknown (108) > unknown (105) > unknown (110) > staff (50) > libuuid (101) > unknown (106) > unknown (111) > mail (8) > > > ...iocard has mysteriously vanashed. > > I don't understand what's going on here :P > > Nick/. > > On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 07:10:10PM +0100, intrigeri wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Nick Bailey wrote (13 Jan 2012 16:34:02 GMT) : > > > It would be great if I could think of a way to add user to group > > > iocard > > > > $ cat config/chroot_local-preseed/user > > debconf passwd/user-default-groups string audio cdrom dialout floppy video > > plugdev netdev powerdev fuse debian-tor scanner lp lpadmin > > > > Cheers, > > -- > > intrigeri > > | GnuPG key @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/intrigeri.asc > > | OTR fingerprint @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/otr.asc > > | So what? > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > > listmas...@lists.debian.org > > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/85ty3zpj7h....@boum.org > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120120181941.GC25784@ingrid.fairholm > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-live-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120120182800.GA21311@ingrid.fairholm