Live GUI USB Image Default Passwords

[red6]

I have searched everywhere and can not find nor guess the default passwords for 'root' or 'gentoo' users.

Any thoughts.

If I had a brain I would be dangerous



Meanwhile I am installing from the minimal ISO and stage3 tar file on a VPS provided by Cloudzy. A good test for me.

[Banana]

If I'm not totally mistaken, since it is some time ago, you should be able to switch to root with sudo su as the automatically logged in user.

[b11n]

The default passwords are randomly generated, for safety. This usually isn't a problem because the liveCD logs the 'gentoo' user in by default, and as Banana notes, from there you can 'su' to root.

If you want to access the live environment remotely with ssh,[/code] set your own password for the 'gentoo' user with 'passwd'.

[flysideways]

I like the current version of the Gentoo LiveGUI. The crew that has made and maintain it are due credit. It far exceeds earlier versions.

It has even earned the respect of being mentioned in the Handbook as one of the potential installation media.

In the time I have been using Gentoo, I do not remember ever installing sudo. sudo's usage is also a bit sparsely mentioned in Gentoo docs.

Using sudo su - to get into a comfortable state for the rest of the installation, may be a worthy edit for the Handbook, in addition to LiveGUI specific instructions for sshd.

[rab0171610]

I use

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sudo passwd

to change the root password during the live session.

[red6]

Sudo worked for me. Thanks. I was able to create passwords for gentoo and root without being prompted for existing passwd.

But silly me, I was hoping for an installer. So not sure how to get some persistence of any kind.

[flysideways]

You are the installer.

[red6]

Yup. True. So after having ZERO success with a bunch of cloud providers and always ending up with the same error regarding EFI vars I have given up on Gentoo for now. I wanted a systemd free setup and achieved it with Artix Linux on a bunch of VPS's around the world.

Trick was to create one and only one partition and make it a ext4 system and set the bootable flag with fdisk/cfdisk. Then grub installed and boot time is total of about 1.2 seconds.
(It even has to be the first mbr primary partition! A swap partition as the first partition doesn't work in all my experiments.)

But I will admit that all the head banging with Gentoo was not fruitless.

[pietinger]

[...] and always ending up with the same error regarding EFI vars I have given up on Gentoo for now. [...]
Trick was to create one and only one partition [...]

This tells me you have done an old MBR partition setup (where you have installed grub into the empty space before the 1st partition.

There are two possibilities:
1. you really have such an old machine that does not yet speak UEFI, or
2. you have enabled compatibility mode in the UEFI BIOS (CSM mode or Legacy). Since our GentooLiveCD works with MBR and GPT, the lack of efivarfs is a sign of this. Mabye read this chapter:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Pieti ... stallation

If you want you can test it (even with an installed Artix Linux):

1. Change the setting in your BIOS
2. Boot our GentooLiveCD
3. Ask if /sys/firmware/efi exist, or simply ask with "mount"
4. Change it back to CSM in BIOS to be able to boot your Artix again

[red6]

[...] and always ending up with the same error regarding EFI vars I have given up on Gentoo for now. [...]
Trick was to create one and only one partition [...]

This tells me you have done an old MBR partition setup (where you have installed grub into the empty space before the 1st partition.

There are two possibilities:
1. you really have such an old machine that does not yet speak UEFI, or
2. you have enabled compatibility mode in the UEFI BIOS (CSM mode or Legacy). Since our GentooLiveCD works with MBR and GPT, the lack of efivarfs is a sign of this. Mabye read this chapter:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Pieti ... stallation

If you want you can test it (even with an installed Artix Linux):

1. Change the setting in your BIOS
2. Boot our GentooLiveCD
3. Ask if /sys/firmware/efi exist, or simply ask with "mount"
4. Change it back to CSM in BIOS to be able to boot your Artix again

Thanks for that. I will keep on trucking. I really want to get this solved. I am determined to get away from systemd and OpenRC seems to be the logical choice given it's pedigree right here from GenToo dev's.

[pietinger]

Thanks for that. [...]

You are very Welcome!

[...] I will keep on trucking. I really want to get this solved.

YES! With this setting you are right here at Gentoo.