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

["Caleb Cushing" <xenoterracide@gmail.com>]

ugh... I am still working on this... I've even tried adding the
directory to the overlay and changing permissions there. is there
another way around this?

On 9/7/06, Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like to note that that really isn't the password I'm setting... I
> changed that so it wouldn't be displayed here.
>
> yeah I figgure the one line should handle both but it doesn't work...
> I still have permission errors. should I maybe use the fsscript to
> make the user instead of letting catalyst do it.
>
>
> On 9/7/06, Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > 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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