[gentoo-catalyst] Root user's home directory

[gentoo-catalyst] Root user's home directory

[Ted Kosan]

Hello,

First off, earlier in the week I moved my LiveCD builds over to Catalyst2 rc5
and so far I have not run into any problems during the build process.

Now for my question.  After my LiveCD boots the root user's HOME environment
variable is set to "/".  The /etc/passed file shows root's HOME to be /root and
if I ssh into the machine the remote shell shows root's HOME to be /root.

Does anyone have some thoughts on how I can adjust my catalyst configuration to
have the LiveCD boot with the root user's HOME environment variable set to
"/root"?

Thanks in advance :-)

Ted
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Re: [gentoo-catalyst] Root user's home directory

[Chris Gianelloni]

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On Wed, 2005-12-07 at 11:22 -0800, Ted Kosan wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> First off, earlier in the week I moved my LiveCD builds over to Catalyst2 rc5
> and so far I have not run into any problems during the build process.
> 
> Now for my question.  After my LiveCD boots the root user's HOME environment
> variable is set to "/".  The /etc/passed file shows root's HOME to be /root and
> if I ssh into the machine the remote shell shows root's HOME to be /root.
> 
> Does anyone have some thoughts on how I can adjust my catalyst configuration to
> have the LiveCD boot with the root user's HOME environment variable set to
> "/root"?
> 
> Thanks in advance :-)

That's a side-effect of using bashlogin.  The easiest solution is to set
a root password in your fsscript and not use bashlogin/pwgen, but rather
stick with agetty.  This will, of course, require changes to the
livecd-functions.sh script from livecd-tools, so that's a bit more for
your fsscript.

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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