Adding files to home directory of liveCD

[lovyagin]

I'm going to create a liveCD and trying to put files into home directory. However, if I just try do it at %post script of kickstart file, I see there is no /home/liveuser directory during script execution at all. Attempt to create in manually fails because root become owner of all files. Adding "chown liveuser:liveuser ..." fails too, sine there is no liveuser in host system.

What is "legal" way to add files into liveCD liveuser's home directory? Modify configurations files/profiles/autostart/etc?

Also I can't force mdm (aka folk of gnome2's gdm) to prompt for liveuser's password, even if I turn autologin off. When one clicks liveuser user name, it login in immediately with no chance to change user's language. Is there a way to force gdm to ask a password even if user have an empty one?

[AndrewSerk]

Hi lovyagin,
You can add a file to the livecd by putting the file to add in the same directory/folder as the kickstart you are building from and add somethin like the following to the "%post nochroot" section of the kickstart.

##############################################################################
## POST --NOCHROOT
##############################################################################
%post --nochroot
##copy somefile to livecd default users home dir
cp somefile $INSTALL_ROOT/home/liveuser/

To set a user password you can add "pw=any_password" to the kernel line. That will set password for user and root. If you want to add this kernel line from the kickstart, add something like this toward the top of your kickstart.

bootloader --append="pw=any_password"

Hope this helps,

[lovyagin]

Hi AndrewSerk!

Will liveuser be an owner of home directory and copied files after running such %post --nochroot script?

And, sorry, I'm not going to set any password, I just want gdm/mgm to ask for a password although it is empty.

[AndrewSerk]

Originally Posted by lovyagin

Hi AndrewSerk!

Will liveuser be an owner of home directory and copied files after running such %post --nochroot script?

And, sorry, I'm not going to set any password, I just want gdm/mgm to ask for a password although it is empty.

Yes, the liveuser will own the files copied to /home/liveuser . (at least that is how it works here) If you have a issue along those lines you could always use something like "chmod 755" to give the file the permissions you want.


The user and password are set in the fedora-live-base.ks with the lines:

# add fedora user with no passwd
action "Adding live user" useradd \$USERADDARGS -c "Live System User" liveuser
passwd -d liveuser > /dev/null

You may be able to change the last line to something that would allow you to enter a new password every login but I am not sure how to do that.

I see from your first post you may want to use a different language. If you want to set a different default language,keyboard and time zone for the livecd you can do that in the fedora-live-base.ks by changing the following lines that appear at the top of the .ks .

lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
timezone US/Eastern

Hope this helps,