Re: [qubes-users] Changing default user from "user" to something else in AppVMs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 11:48:50AM -0700, John Toohey wrote: > Hi, > Just starting with Qubes and have 3.0 installed and running. I have some old > scripts that rely on my username being the logged in user. I've tried to use > qvm-prefs -s to set the user name from the root console, but it doesn't work. > What is the correct way to set the user name that AppVMs use be default when > they are created? In short: sorry, not possible. Most of tools (like ssh, irc etc) support setting default username to something else than logged in user. You can also try changing $USER and/or $LOGNAME environment variables. - -- Best Regards, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki Invisible Things Lab A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2 iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJXzcDdAAoJENuP0xzK19csc48H/jJr6Y/lHf4Z2Uvo2EBcLuTY QOEy9Z0yXbLCupiN4TDJTEwWiikdkT9am+8Ze/MB+zRBO3tXXDqTjsle9x5YtWqc usrEaBGTxEGyG8QZI7mSslutLnXpYxngChDVjtYM1Nqq46UEN+929qYxbdXzpXDm trPJ4q/w7o+qBB1xlRy36g94dA3Yn8LdOB4x0u1QXJVATYirfcdRIculVD5DmE+J zWxDLkdr/IRtSERQFpkl02sLIUbXGyXkFU0y7U7C8Kz4UFba0ymcK38Ni5ETMBZc Fas8G91F90jCHiAPoPV0AAYp1kdbY0JZ0jFssfhVu2/ZA2LR566fAsKOAoedQ9A= =4dZZ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/20160905190044.GJ13909%40mail-itl. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [qubes-users] Changing default user from "user" to something else in AppVMs
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki: > On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 11:48:50AM -0700, John Toohey wrote: >> Hi, Just starting with Qubes and have 3.0 installed and running. >> I have some old scripts that rely on my username being the logged >> in user. I've tried to use qvm-prefs -s to set the user name from >> the root console, but it doesn't work. What is the correct way to >> set the user name that AppVMs use be default when they are >> created? > > In short: sorry, not possible. Most of tools (like ssh, irc etc) > support setting default username to something else than logged in > user. You can also try changing $USER and/or $LOGNAME environment > variables. > > Seems to me like this might be a bad idea, anyway, as you might stick out from the crowd of Qubes users more in case of limited AppVM compromise (e.g. FBI CIPAV). Andrew -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/7526ee6e-d20d-2b62-0a0c-bf1339468c36%40riseup.net. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.