On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 12:57 PM, Angelos Tzotsos <[email protected]> wrote:
> Already happening: > > https://github.com/OSGeo/OSGeoLive/blob/master/bin/inchroot.sh#L216 I'm not really familiar with the process, so just to be clear on what is happening. /etc/skel is used (can be used) to create home for a user, but so far it contains all the user names hardcoded as 'user'? > > > best, > Angelos > > > On 10/05/2015 06:11 PM, Johan Van de Wauw wrote: > >> We can probably fix many errors by having everything added under the >> user dir also under /etc/skel. If a new user is created, it copies >> that data. >> >> For your setup: take care that user has sudo rights. I am not sure >> this is what you want. >> >> Kind Regards, >> Johan >> >> On Mon, Oct 5, 2015 at 4:28 PM, Vaclav Petras <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Sun, Oct 4, 2015 at 5:03 AM, Angelos Tzotsos <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Vaclav, >>>> >>>> We have not tested this use case in the recent releases, so there might >>>> be >>>> more than QGIS and GRASS. >>>> It would be very useful to have a volunteer run all the quickstarts >>>> using >>>> a custom user >>>> >>> >>> Well, I can ran it for few more desktop projects I'm interested in, but >>> not >>> for all. >>> >>> to confirm what is working. >>>> >>> >>> Now we know that it doesn't work for QGIS and GRASS GIS. There is hight >>> chance it will fail for anything PostgreSQL-related. My question is what >>> to >>> do about it? Is the solution just to use user name 'user'? >>> >>> Vaclav >>> >>> >>>> Best, >>>> Angelos >>>> >>>> >>>> On 09/30/2015 02:34 AM, Vaclav Petras wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> my university made OSGeo-Live available for students through Apache VCL >>>> (Virtual Computing Lab). It is customary that on Linux machines you get >>>> your user name, however the examples and defaults in OSGeo-Live are >>>> expecting user name to be 'user'. >>>> >>>> I have tried GRASS GIS where you have to change the grassdata directory. >>>> In >>>> QGIS, you have to change the paths in the project when opening the >>>> project >>>> (the GUI allows you to edit them manually). I'm not sure what else is >>>> influenced. The browser's default page was not localhost. >>>> >>>> Do you thing is it worth trying asking to change user name to 'user'? >>>> Or, >>>> from your experience, do you think that few broken project files >>>> wouldn't >>>> be such a problem when people follow tutorials? Or is is feasible to >>>> change >>>> the user name everywhere? Few sed commands would take care of QGIS >>>> project >>>> file and GRASS GIS defaults but I have no idea what else is there. >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Vaclav >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Live-demo mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo >>>> http://live.osgeo.org >>>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Angelos Tzotsos, PhD >>>> OSGeo Charter Member >>>> http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Live-demo mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo >>>> http://live.osgeo.org >>>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc >>>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Live-demo mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/live-demo >>> http://live.osgeo.org >>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc >>> >> > > -- > Angelos Tzotsos, PhD > OSGeo Charter Member > http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos > >
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