ugh... I am still working on this... I've even tried adding the
directory to the overlay and changing permissions there. is there
another way around this?

On 9/7/06, Caleb Cushing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'd like to note that that really isn't the password I'm setting... I
changed that so it wouldn't be displayed here.

yeah I figgure the one line should handle both but it doesn't work...
I still have permission errors. should I maybe use the fsscript to
make the user instead of letting catalyst do it.


On 9/7/06, Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Caleb Cushing wrote:
> > here is mys script.
> >
> > chown -R bgkiosk:users /home/bgkiosk/
> > chown -R bgkiosk:users /home/bgkiosk/.*
>
> 'chown -R bgkiosk:users /home/bgkiosk' can replace those 2 lines
>
> > echo "root:*" | chpasswd
>
> This is setting the root password to "*", which is probably not what you
> intended to do. Also, you'll want to use single quotes in the echo when 
passing
> stuff to chpasswd to avoid the shell interpolating stuff in the string. In the
> above command, the root password is probably actually being set to a list of 
all
> the files in whatever directory you're in :P Use the -e option to chpasswd to
> have it put the password into /etc/shadow as-is. You could also use 'passwd -l
> root' to lock the account.
>
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