Gentoo Archives: gentoo-catalyst

From: Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-catalyst@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] xorg starting wrong user permissions.
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:55:57
Message-Id: 81bfc67a0609110955t5cd871faqf1c6b715bfa21c58@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-catalyst] xorg starting wrong user permissions. by Caleb Cushing
1 ugh... I am still working on this... I've even tried adding the
2 directory to the overlay and changing permissions there. is there
3 another way around this?
4
5 On 9/7/06, Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@×××××.com> wrote:
6 > I'd like to note that that really isn't the password I'm setting... I
7 > changed that so it wouldn't be displayed here.
8 >
9 > yeah I figgure the one line should handle both but it doesn't work...
10 > I still have permission errors. should I maybe use the fsscript to
11 > make the user instead of letting catalyst do it.
12 >
13 >
14 > On 9/7/06, Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@g.o> wrote:
15 > > Caleb Cushing wrote:
16 > > > here is mys script.
17 > > >
18 > > > chown -R bgkiosk:users /home/bgkiosk/
19 > > > chown -R bgkiosk:users /home/bgkiosk/.*
20 > >
21 > > 'chown -R bgkiosk:users /home/bgkiosk' can replace those 2 lines
22 > >
23 > > > echo "root:*" | chpasswd
24 > >
25 > > This is setting the root password to "*", which is probably not what you
26 > > intended to do. Also, you'll want to use single quotes in the echo when passing
27 > > stuff to chpasswd to avoid the shell interpolating stuff in the string. In the
28 > > above command, the root password is probably actually being set to a list of all
29 > > the files in whatever directory you're in :P Use the -e option to chpasswd to
30 > > have it put the password into /etc/shadow as-is. You could also use 'passwd -l
31 > > root' to lock the account.
32 > >
33 > > --
34 > > Andrew Gaffney http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
35 > > Gentoo Linux Developer Installer Project
36 > >
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40 > >
41 >
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