I'm thinking your problem is that chpasswd only works for existing users. You could probably add newusers to your packages, and have your script something like:
#!/bin/sh echo "admin:admin:::Admin User:/home/admin:/bin/bash" | newusers newusers takes a line that looks like an /etc/passwd entry, but has the password in cleartext and will fill omitted fields with sensible defaults. I have my script (using chpasswd because I'm just changing the password for root) in config/hooks/live/95accounts.hook.chroot. On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 2:23 AM Robert Spiteri <rspiter...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can someone please guide me on this? > > I want to change the default username and password instead of the > user/live. > > I do not want to use the boot parameters but would like to have everything > done using files and hooks. > > There is multiple documentation online and not all is correct/updated it > seems. > > So far I tried this but nothing is working: > > Created a file: > *config/includes.chroot_after_packages/etc/live/config.conf.d/10-user-setup.conf* > with the below: > > LIVE_HOSTNAME="debianbox" > LIVE_USERNAME="admin" > LIVE_USER_FULLNAME="Administrator"' > > Created a file: > *config/includes.chroot_after_packages/lib/live/config/2000-passwd* with > the below: > #!/bin/sh > > live-config hook: passwd > echo "admin:admin" | chpasswd > echo "root:ADMIN" | chpasswd >
