Re: [gentoo-catalyst] xorg starting wrong user permissions.

[Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@gentoo.org>]

Caleb Cushing wrote:
> here is mys script.
> 
> chown -R bgkiosk:users /home/bgkiosk/
> chown -R bgkiosk:users /home/bgkiosk/.*

'chown -R bgkiosk:users /home/bgkiosk' can replace those 2 lines

> echo "root:*" | chpasswd

This is setting the root password to "*", which is probably not what you 
intended to do. Also, you'll want to use single quotes in the echo when passing 
stuff to chpasswd to avoid the shell interpolating stuff in the string. In the 
above command, the root password is probably actually being set to a list of all 
the files in whatever directory you're in :P Use the -e option to chpasswd to 
have it put the password into /etc/shadow as-is. You could also use 'passwd -l 
root' to lock the account.

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Andrew Gaffney                            http://dev.gentoo.org/~agaffney/
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