Re: Use of '--sudo' in vmdebootstrap; live-wrapper package
Phil wrote:
>
>In a previous mail I mentioned removal of '--lock-root-password'.
>
>On the same line (36) of 'vm.py' is the argument passed to
>'vmdebootstrap' of '--sudo'. Ok, according to the manual pages this
>will force the install of the 'sudo' package. Also if a user is
>created, it will add them to the 'sudo' group.
>
>However, under 'live-wrapper' I see no user creation at
>'vmdebootstrap' creation time, thus this leaves us with 'sudo'
>installed but any user created at install of the end result ISO image,
>not part of the 'sudo' group.
>
>I see the primary purpose of the correct usage is to create a username
>and password that can be used while running in live mode.
>
>Example:
>
>vmdebootstrap --user=debian/debian --sudo
>
>The above would create a user 'debian' with password 'debian' who can
>use 'sudo' whilst running in live mode; and it is probably this
>behaviour we would want?
Not really, no. There's a special live-specific sudo config file
/etc/sudoers.d/live which gives sudo rights to the live user without
password.
If you're trying to track down the su/sudo problem with the live
installer, that's somewhere different. The installer is meant to write
changes to the passwd/shadow/sudoers files at the end of the
installation, and that does't seem to be working. I've been too busy
in the last few days to look into that any deeper.
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Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
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