Re: set password for live user

[Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen@xorcom.com>]

One more thing,

On Tue, Jul 14, 2009 at 07:37:28PM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I attach an initramfs hook script I added to my live CD
> (config/chroot_local-includes/usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/) to be
> able to set a different password for the live user.


[snip]

> # If it was not set, one way or the other, we have nothing to do:
> if [ ! "${PASSWORD}" ]
> then
> 	exit 0
> fi
> 
> log_begin_msg "Setting a custom password for the default user"
> 
> echo "${USERNAME}:${PASSWORD}" | chroot /root /usr/sbin/chpasswd

Later on I added here an extra line to edit the password of one extra
service.

This is not something I can do on a later script because I don't know
the password (unless I replicate the logic from here).

> 
> log_end_msg


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