Re: Adding user on LiveCD

2010-08-31 Thread Tony Sauri
On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:45, Dahai Guo wrote: > Hello, > I am building LFS 6.5 via LiveCD on VirtualBox. Now I am at chap 4 which > talks about adding users. Everything went fine except that the added user > was gone when I shut down the machine and restarted it. I used "cat > /etc/passwd" to list th

Re: Adding user on LiveCD

2010-08-31 Thread linux fan
The live cd has the user "jhalfs" which is already set up in sudoers (sudo). Once booted and at the shell, you can become "jhalfs" with: su - jhalfs Then can get into graphical desktop with: startxfce4 In the instructions that reference user "lfs", substitute the user "jhalfs" I think that may w

Re: Adding user on LiveCD

2010-08-31 Thread Smartboy
On 08/31/2010 07:40 AM, William Immendorf wrote: > On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 8:06 AM, wrote: >> I don't know if this would help, but the way I do it is I write a script to >> the target disk containing all the user, and file information ( partition, >> mount command, passwd and user info) and ot

Re: Adding user on LiveCD

2010-08-31 Thread William Immendorf
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 8:06 AM, wrote: > I don't know if this would help, but the way I do it is I write a script to > the target disk containing all the user, and file information ( partition, > mount command, passwd and user info) and other scripts for environments. So > when I have to shut

Re: Adding user on LiveCD

2010-08-31 Thread kess . alexander
I don't know if this would help, but the way I do it is I write a script to the target disk containing all the user, and file information ( partition, mount command, passwd and user info) and other scripts for environments. So when I have to shutdown, I launch the scripts and everything is setup

Re: Adding user on LiveCD

2010-08-31 Thread William Immendorf
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 6:45 AM, Dahai Guo wrote: > I am building LFS 6.5 via LiveCD on VirtualBox. Now I am at chap 4 which > talks about adding users. > Everything went fine except that the added user was gone when I shut down the > machine and restarted it. I used "cat /etc/passwd" to list th

Adding user on LiveCD

2010-08-31 Thread Dahai Guo
Hello, I am building LFS 6.5 via LiveCD on VirtualBox. Now I am at chap 4 which talks about adding users. Everything went fine except that the added user was gone when I shut down the machine and restarted it. I used "cat /etc/passwd" to list the users and did not find the newly added user. Any