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etnull
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 Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2020 3:39 pm Post subject: [S] Proper way of managing a new regular user under chroot |
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At the end of Gentoo install you usually create a regular user, assign groups, passwords and make other small finishing edits. Creating user under chroot is not a problem, but making edits for that user turned out to be more tricky than I expected, I can't just edit files in ~/ of the regular user from root, it will mess up ownership of these files, so I did all my edits with something like this:
| Code: | | runuser -l *USER* -c '*command*' |
I created basic folder structure:
| Code: | | runuser -l *USER* -c 'mkdir ~/{desktop,documents,downloads,music,pictures,public,videos}' |
edited .bash_profile, .xinitrc and .Xresources in similar way. After all of that I rebooted, logged-in as that user, but all my edits were gone... no folders, .bash_profile and the rest were like if they were copied from some default location. Also during login I noticed that the last login was mentioned as pts/0, so I assume for the first login of a user these files are copied from somewhere to make defaults?.. At some point I'm going to make an installation script and I need to figure out this user creation step to properly finish the install.
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sabayonino
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| Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2020 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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You can run "chroot" commands inside your script without any prompt
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#/bin/bash
<your script part>
# Entering in your chroot environment without any prompt : just execute all commands between EOF strings
cat << EOF | chroot ${ROOT} /bin/bash
<do anything as gentoo wiki explain or according your needs>
EOF
<continue your script>
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Where ${ROOT} is your gentoo mountpoint (/mnt/gentoo or something else)
so :
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#/bin/bash
<start your script here>
# Now you can run commands inside your chroot
# Entering in your chroot environment without any prompt : just execute all commands between EOF string
cat << EOF | chroot ${ROOT} /bin/bash
mkdir -p /home/<user>/{Desktop,Downloads,...}
# change the <user> permisisions
# <do something else : emerge , install a program , remove directories and so on>
EOF
# The script exit from chroot after last comm.
<continue your script>
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etnull
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| Posted: Thu Oct 15, 2020 9:44 pm Post subject: |
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| Using "su - *USER*" to swith to that user and execute everything uder it was the proper way, or at least it was persistent after I logged in properly with that user. I don't know what was wrong with runuser commands, but those were my findings. I'm not yet writing the script, not sure if it gonna work in that case, but that's for later to discover. |
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