This seems so basic that I'm almost afraid to post it. Additionally, it
could go on this, the LFS or the LiveCD list. I chose this one since it
deals with configuration and can apply to just more than LiveCD. Please
let me know if I should take it elsewhere.
I've started building LFS using LiveCD 6.1.1-2 on my laptop. Since I
had to type, type, type when I built LFS on my PC, I was really excited
to be able to use something in which I could copy and paste. :-) I
wrote some scripts to set up the build environment and started on my
merry way. Then I discovered that as user lfs I couldn't copy and paste
from Firefox. I'm running Firefox from an xterm (using twm) as root and
building lfs in an xterm as lfs. I reasoned that the difference in
users was the problem. Additionally, after I set up my environment, I
cannot 'startx' from a console as lfs. I changed $PATH to include
/usr/X11R6/bin for lfs and that still didn't work, even though the " x
executables" are -rwxr-xr-x. One of the calls startx makes is to
'xauth' --the message is 'command not found.'
I reasoned that this is permissions and security based and this is the
point at which "methane on the brain" took over and I realized I had a
severe hole in my knowlege.
On LiveCD there are entries in /etc/{passwd, groups} for user and group
lfs. But unless I use {group,user}add, I can't 'su' to lfs. LiveCD
defaults to init 3 and the root user, I would like to change this so
that I could log on as lfs. But I don't know how to get 'login' to work
from boot. The man pages for the startup stuff--init, getty, login--all
tell what the calls do and NOT how to implement them. All of the
solutions that I can think of won't work until AFTER I have access to
the terminal and then it's too late. I have always been terribly weak
in my knowlege of what and how to pass parameters on the command line at
boot--if that's possible in this case.
I haven't yet had the opportunity to search the LFS and BLFS books with
a fine toothed comb to see if I can find places that explain all this.
Nor have I completed my search of the archives--so far I've come up
empty. My intent is to solve this and then modify the LiveCD to allow
login as lfs at boot.
I apologize for the length of this and also if I should put it on
another list. I will appreciate and pointers to the right direction.
Dan
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