Hi Len, thank you for all your help. It has been valuable. Here are my findings:
indeed altering the default user fron initrd is the way forward: infact I had to replace the username and hostname in <initrd_root>/etc/casper.conf and also to uncomment the "flavour" line below. no need to alter the same values in <initrd_root>/scripts/casper sadly I do not know what these are there for. Now , i'm not sure about persistency - i'll have to get back to you on this one - because I was doing my tests and running my live sessions from a pxe-booting and nfs-mounting virtual machine. so soon i'll try creating a liveUSB stick, and i'll update one last time the initrd and squashfs there and i'll see how this very compact and portable OS works to my liking:) take care and thanks for the help! > Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 14:02:30 -0800 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-studio-devel] how can I alter the username in a live > session > > On Tue, 3 Feb 2015, Len Ovens wrote: > > > /etc/passwd, shadow, group, and there has to be a home directory. I think > > that is it. > > The groups to add the user to are listed on the ISO in the preseed > directory in the ubuntustudio.seed file. > > -- > Len Ovens > www.ovenwerks.net > > > -- > ubuntu-studio-devel mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-devel
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