Back at messing around with this again. Making really good progress but I do have a general question. Reading the Arch wiki on the archiso I get that if you want files like bashrc, Xresources and the likes go into airootfs/etc/skel - suppose I want to add other files and directories such as .config/i3 (pretty much all directories within .config)
Would that also apply as long as I use the .config/i3, .config/i3blocks and so on and so forth put into the skel directory?
I figured I might ask before going down that path since it does take some time and I would prefer not to go through that if my hunch does not hold true.
Also - since Iām pretty much doing a live ISO (lightdm and the basic i3 do come up without an issue) I assume I can pre-seed a user and if so (as I donāt think I saw that in the wiki, but could have over looked it too) where can I get info on that process?
EDIT to the item above: I think I found this within the wiki - lol, I guess I did over look this. Will try in a spell
And lastly, what is a good option to include an installer? (I am getting way ahead of myself on this one, but what the heck, why not).
Yes, thatās how I do it with my ISO, although I have /usr/share/sharpbang/skel to hold all the stuff and use a script to copy it to the new user (this is the method that BunsenLabs uses).
Indeed! I did āplayā around with that and ran a test and it did create a user. Wondering tho, how to set a password for that user? Simply using the useradd etc, set it up just fine but have no clue how to set a password.
So far, all is working well - Just need to know of decent program/script to use as an installer.
This is directed to you Nate, is it possible that I use the one you created? If so, are there any stipulations to the use? No - I do not intend to produce a distro, this would be for my own use and possibly for a friend or two.
Aarrgghh. Iām just to tired to even mess with an installer. Just having this done is enough for my needs. Going to mark this closed (although I donāt know if assigning a password is still doable, but at this point, itās pretty much a moot point, lol).
If you are using our build then all you have to do is edit the customize_airootfs.sh script
# this adds the 'autologin' group if not already
grep -q "^autologin:" /etc/group || groupadd -r autologin
# user groups
g="audio,autologin,floppy,log,network,rfkill,scanner,storage,optical,power,wheel"
if ! id liveuser 2>/dev/null; then
useradd -m -u 1000 -g users -G $g -s /bin/zsh liveuser
chpasswd <<< 'liveuser:archlabs'
fi
This is a modified snippet (closer to what we currently have) of what youāll find in the above mentioned script.
It uses chpasswd instead of passwd and itās format is USER:PASS, you can use echo and pipes echo 'USER:PASS' | chpasswd
or using a herestring as I did above chpasswd <<< 'USER:PASS'
LOL! Nate, THANK YOU and, Iām feeling pretty stupid right about now.
See, I had so wrapped up into this I wasnāt paying attention that I was doing this on the wrong systemā¦ I was trying to see what you were saying on my Arch Linux install.
(head - desk)
Oh for hellās sakesā¦
Ok, Iāll get on track with the RIGHT OS this time. Not all is lost tho - I did learn a poop-load!.
Nate & HoaS, thank you! Big help on this (even tho I was in the wrong system)ā¦
This is all the same stuff, the same script exists in the default archiso package configs, to see the defaults that archiso ships you can look in /usr/share/archiso/configs/releng this is where all our build files originated, they have grown, shrank, and changed over the course of time but largely still the same structure.
) version in our iso build repo