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

Re: Adding user on LiveCD

2010-08-31 Thread William Immendorf
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 6:45 AM, Dahai Guo guo...@yahoo.com 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

Re: Adding user on LiveCD

2010-08-31 Thread kess . alexander
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Re: Adding user on LiveCD

2010-08-31 Thread William Immendorf
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 8:06 AM, kess.alexan...@gmail.com 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

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, kess.alexan...@gmail.com 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

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 work ok.

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 the