Hi,
I have sent this before, but the patch file I sent was not good, so I
think it's why not being accepted. Therefore I patch that based on
live-initramfs 1.157.2 and send it again. Hope you do not mind.
Attached files are the patches to make live-initramfs to allow assigning
user password from boot parameter.
E.g. With this patch, if we want to assign the password of account
"user" as "newpasswd", we can run:
echo newpasswd | mkpasswd -s
and got: "T29nBwo26xTzs"
(//NOTE// This results will change every time you run mkpasswd)
then we can assign "usercrypted=T29nBwo26xTzs" in the boot parameter.
I found this is very useful to me to change the default password "live".
Hope this helps.
Steven.
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Steven Shiau <steven _at_ nchc org tw> <steven _at_ stevenshiau org>
National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan.
http://www.nchc.org.tw
Public Key Server PGP Key ID: 1024D/9762755A
Fingerprint: A2A1 08B7 C22C 3D06 34DB F4BC 08B3 E3D7 9762 755A
--- live.orig 2009-05-28 10:06:17.000000000 +0800
+++ live 2009-05-28 10:08:58.000000000 +0800
@@ -98,6 +98,12 @@
export USERNAME LIVECONF
;;
+ usercrypted=*)
+ USERCRYPTED="${ARGUMENT#usercrypted=}"
+ LIVECONF="changed"
+ export USERCRYPTED LIVECONF
+ ;;
+
userfullname=*)
USERFULLNAME="${ARGUMENT#userfullname=}"
LIVECONF="changed"
--- 10adduser.orig 2009-05-14 16:16:21.000000000 +0800
+++ 10adduser 2009-05-28 10:10:00.000000000 +0800
@@ -31,7 +31,12 @@
# live-initramfs script
-user_crypted="8Ab05sVQ4LLps" # as in $(echo "live" | mkpasswd -s)
+if [ -z "${USERCRYPTED}" ]
+then
+ user_crypted="8Ab05sVQ4LLps" # as in $(echo "live" | mkpasswd -s)
+else
+ user_crypted="${USERCRYPTED}"
+fi
# U6aMy0wojraho is just a blank password
chroot /root debconf-communicate -fnoninteractive live-initramfs > /dev/null << EOF
